Avesnes-le-Comte No. 2 / 's-Graefhoven / 's-Gravenhoven / Avennae Comitis / Avennis / Avenoe / Avesne-l'Égalité / Avesnis
INFORMATION
Font ID: 21328AVE
Object Type: Stoup
Font Date: 1535
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(mid), Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Nicolas d'Avesnes-le-Comte
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: 62810 Avesnes-le-Comte, France
Site Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D8-D68-D339 crossroads, between Noyelle-Brion (N) and Sombrin (S), W of Arras
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: L'Artois
Font Notes:
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Listed in Enlart (1902) as a holy-water stoup dated by an inscription to 1535 [NB: Enlart gives the department as Nord].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 466247 5569492
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.2703, 2.5537
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 16′ 36″ N, 2° 31′ 35″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Text: "1535"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 785 fn1