Pronville-en-Artois / Perona Villa / Prodovilla

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 21275PRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1675
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(late)
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Géry
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: medieval church here probably a chapel of ease to the parish church at Quéant; parish church built 1768 retaining an earlier tower; church totally destroyed 1917; re-built 1931
Church Address: 62860 Pronville-en-Artois, France
Site Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the RD22, between Buissy (N) and Beaumetz-lès-Cambrai Doignies (S), E of Quéant, W of Cambrai, about 22 km SE of Arras
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: Cambrésis, Artois / Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Additional Comments: destroyed font (the 17thC font) -- disappeared font? (the one from the medieval church/chapel of ease here)
Font Notes:
A baptismal font here is noted in the Epigraphie du département du Pas-de-Calais, issued by the Commission départementale des monuments historiques du Pas-de-Calais (Arras, 1883), p. 272, without details of it. Similarly noted in the Bulletin de la Commission départementale des monuments historiques du Pas-de-Calais (1920) p, 43, with the comment: "Ces objets existaient encore dans l'église au moment de la dernière évacuation, 18 lévrier 1917, mais on ne sait ce qu'ils sont devenus depuis, l'église étant totalement détruite." Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM62001196] as a sandstone dated by an inscription to 1675 but now destroyed.

REFERENCES

  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.