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INFORMATION
FontID: 21335LON
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Nicolas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: 62630 Longvilliers, France
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D146, between Cormont (N) and Maresville (S), 5 km SE of Frencq, 9 km NNW of Montreuil-sur-Mer, 11 km NE of Etaples
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: Le Montreuillois, Le Boulonnais
Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic
Church Notes: present church is 14thC, listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00108338] as 15th, 16thC -- disappeared Cistercian abbey had been founded in 1135 -- there was another chapel in the castle that has been documented to 1100 [source Dictionnaire historique et archéologique du Département du Pas-de-Calais, Arrondissement de Montreuil (Arras: Sueur-Charruey, 1875), vol. 3]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The entry for Longvilliers in Palissy [ref.: PM62001846] lists a sandstone font of the 13th cemtury in this church. [NB: the Dictionnaire historique et archéologique du Département du Pas-de-Calais, Arrondissement de Montreuil (Arras: Sueur-Charruey, 1875), vol. 3, p. 119-120, informs that a 12th-century capital originally from the Abbaye de Longvilliers is used in the parish church at Maresville as a baptismal font]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.544947,
1.724489
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 32′ 41.81″ N,
1° 43′ 28.16″ E
UTM: 31U 409627 5600000
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone