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design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2007 by Daniel Piton from Cercle Historique Wimille Wimereux
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Daniel Piton, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2007 by Daniel Piton [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beussent_église.jpg] [accessed 10 July 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2007 by Daniel Piton from Cercle Historique Wimille Wimereux
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets mobiliers), 2012
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [No. tirage 62W00453], in Mémoire [ref.: AP62W00453] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/2406/sap83_62w00453_p.jpg] [accessed 10 July 2017]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Daniel Piton, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2007 by Daniel Piton from Cercle Historique Wimille Wimereux
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21317BEU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Omer
Church Patron Saints: St. Omer [aka Audomar, Audomarus, Odemaars]
Church Location: 62170 Beussent, France
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located of the D127, near Etaples and Montreuil, 15 km from the coast, 24 km SE of Boulogne-sur-Mer, 75 km from Arras
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church Notes: medieval church replaced 19th-20thC
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of 12th century listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM62000304]. Wooden font cover. The font appears monolithic, of quatrefoiled shape, with a pointed baluster in the spandrels of the sides; moulded lower base; the upper rim of the basin shows some metal staples from an old cover. Modern (?) font cover of low-domed shape.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.554711, 1.804311
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 33′ 16.96″ N, 1° 48′ 15.52″ E
UTM: 31U 415300 5600992
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: quatrefoiled (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoiled
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: shape like a gelatine mould: low-domed with flat ribbed sides; missing finial