Pronville-en-Artois / Perona Villa / Prodovilla
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FontID: 21275PRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Géry
Church Location: 62860 Pronville-en-Artois, France
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
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
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: 1675
Century and Period: 17th century(late)
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
Font Notes:
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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.