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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

the 1540 basin on a replacement base
Scene Description: the 1540 basin on a replacement base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France) - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - diffusion RMN, 2012
Image Source: digital image of a pre-1925 B&W negative on glass by Gates, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00078649] [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/palissy_fr] [accessed 5 August 2012]
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inscription

with the date 1540
Scene Description: with the date 1540
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France) - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - diffusion RMN, 2012
Image Source: digital image of a pre-1925 B&W negative on glass by Gates, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00078649] [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/palissy_fr] [accessed 5 August 2012]
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view of church exterior in context

the village square with a view of the church on the left; the church would be destroyed in 1917(?) in WWI and re-built thereafter
Scene Description: the village square with a view of the church on the left; the church would be destroyed in 1917(?) in WWI and re-built thereafter
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an undated [pre-1918] postcard [http://www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php?title=Fichier:Eterpigny_église_cpa.jpg] [accessed 17 August 2023]
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view of church exterior in context

Source caption: "Vue de la place Michel de Warenghien d'Éterpigny (Pas-de-Calais)." -- the re-built church on the left
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de la place Michel de Warenghien d'Éterpigny (Pas-de-Calais)." -- the re-built church on the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Floflo62, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2014 by Floflo62 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Éterpigny_(Pas-de-Calais)_-_Place_Michel_de_Warenghien.JPG] [accessed 17 August 2023]
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view of font and cover

the 1540 basin on a replacement base
Scene Description: the 1540 basin on a replacement base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France) - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - diffusion RMN, 2012
Image Source: digital image of a pre-1925 B&W negative on glass by Gates, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00078649] [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/palissy_fr] [accessed 5 August 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 18147ETE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin à Éterpigny
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours [earlier dedication to St. Nicholas]
Church Location: 5A Pl. Michel de Warenghien, 62156 Éterpigny, France -- Tel.: +33 3 21 24 06 17
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D9, 14 km SE of Arras
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Date: 1540
Century and Period: 16th century(mid) [altered]
Church Notes: church destroyed in WWI; re-built thereafter
Font Notes:
Baptismal font made of sandstone, consisting of an octagonal basin of two volumes, the lower one narrower and bearing the date of 1540 on a side; there is a graded moulding between the two volumes; the octagonal-to-square pedestal base is reported as a replacement [cf. infra]. The octagonal wooden cover is crown-shaped, with scalloped panels and a Latin-cross finial; appears modern. Catalogued and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM62000648] and Mémoire [ref.: APMH00078649] [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/palissy_fr] [accessed 5 August 2012]: "grès [...] 2e quart 16e siècle [...] Le pied a du être refait." The baptismal font survived the destruction of the church in WWI.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.258056, 2.979722
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 15′ 29″ N, 2° 58′ 47″ E
UTM: 31U 498555 5567323

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: on the basin side
Inscription Text: "1540"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]