Vaudricourt

INFORMATION

Font ID: 08740PAS

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: 1602

Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(early), Late Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Church / Chapel Name: Église Notre-Dame du Rosaire de Vaudricourt

Font Location in Church: Inside, in a chapel(?) off the nave the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00108435]: "13e siècle ; 17e siècle"

Church Address: 103 Chem. de l'Église, 62131 Vaudricourt, France -- Tel.: +33 3 21 68 00 67

Site Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe

Directions to Site: Located off the D-171E, in the canton de Barlin, in arrondissement de Béthune and just SW of it, on the S side of the A26

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

The baptismal font is listed in Palissy [ref. PM62001606]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Grès [...] 1602 [...] Armoiries : aux armes de Genevières." It is illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP62W01412]. Palissy [ref.: PM62006098] reports a holy-water stoup of the 17th century, also in this church: "Scellé dans le mur nord au rez-de-chaussée de la tour".

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 473609 5594223

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.499386, 2.627884

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 29′ 57.79″ N, 2° 37′ 40.38″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers

Inscription Location: on the basin side

Inscription Text: "1602"

Inscription Notes: [cf. Font notes]

Inscription Source: [cf. Font notes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: low octagonal pyramid with cross finial

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