Avesnes-le-Comte No. 2 / 's-Graefhoven / 's-Gravenhoven / Avennae Comitis / Avennis / Avenoe / Avesne-l'Égalité / Avesnis
INFORMATION
FontID: 21328AVE
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Nicolas d'Avesnes-le-Comte
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: 62810 Avesnes-le-Comte, France
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
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 Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1535
Century and Period: 16th century(mid), Late Gothic
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Listed in Enlart (1902) as a holy-water stoup dated by an inscription to 1535 [NB: Enlart gives the department as Nord].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.2703,
2.5537
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 16′ 36″ N,
2° 31′ 35″ E
UTM: 31U 466247 5569492
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