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B01: design element - motifs - vine - beaded-tape

Scene Description: parts of it have beaded-tape pattern

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 January 2012 by André Lemoine [www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php/Fichier:Blendecques_fonts_baptismaux.JPG] [accessed 5 August 2012]

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B02: animal - mammal - lion - head - vegetation stemming from its mouth

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UB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: several

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 January 2012 by André Lemoine [www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php/Fichier:Blendecques_fonts_baptismaux.JPG] [accessed 5 August 2012]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thadée Szalamacha, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2010 by Thadée Szalamacha [www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php/Fichier:Blendecques_église3.jpg] [accessed 5 August 2012]

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 January 2012 by André Lemoine [www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php/Fichier:Blendecques_fonts_baptismaux.JPG] [accessed 5 August 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18150BLE
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Gilles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located at the D77-D210-D211 crossroads, 5 km S of Saint-Omer, in the arrondissement de Saint-Omer, canton d'Arques
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Date: 1559?
Century and Period: 16th century(mid?) / modern?, Late Gothic? / Modern?
Noted in Roger et al. (1844): "Les fonts baptismaux sont formés par un bloc de marbre de Boulogne à huit pans; sur l'une des faces on lit la date de 1559". Not clear what the 'huit pans' in Roger et al. refers to. The present font consists of a cylindrical basin decorated with foliage motifs all around, and including at least one animal (lion?) head in it; raised on a moulded pedestal base. The metal cover is flat with a hinged opening. The font appears modern, although the motifs themselves are of en old design. [NB: was the font noted in Roger et al. a different one?] [NB: according to Claude Floure [www.ville-blendecques.fr/spip.php?article75] [accessed 5 August 2012] little remains of the Cistercian abbey of Sainte-Colombe of Blendecques; it was founded in 1186; sold in 1793, most of it was re-used; only the 17th-century re-construction of the porch and abbey quarters remains now.]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 448975 5618693

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (marble de Boulogne)
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Text: "1559"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872