Maresville / Marville / Sainte-Maresville / Sainte Maroiville / Sancta Mariavilla
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Scene Description: formerly a capital from the nearby abbey of Longvilliers
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Image Source: digital image of a pre-1925 B&W photograph [Négatif noir et blanc; support verre] [(NUMP) MH0078716], in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00078716] taken by Gates (photographe), in [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0418/sap01_mh00078716_p.jpg] [accessed 23 July 2017]
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design element - motifs - floral and/or foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a pre-1925 B&W photograph [Négatif noir et blanc; support verre] [(NUMP) MH0078716], in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00078716] taken by Gates (photographe), in [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0418/sap01_mh00078716_p.jpg] [accessed 23 July 2017]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Delphine Maeyaert, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2012 by Delphine Maeyaert [www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php?title=Fichier:Maresville_église.JPG] [accessed 23 July 2017]
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michelle Piton-Caron, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2012 by Michelle Piton-Caron [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maresville_église_1.jpg] [accessed 23 July 2017]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 21336MAR
Object Type: Other
Object Details: capital, medieval
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Maur
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Maurice [aka Maur, Mauritius, Moritz, Morris]
Church Notes: 12thC chapel dedicate to Saint-Maur dependant of Saint-Sauve and served by its monks [Benedictine?]
Church Address: 62630 Maresville, France
Site Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D146, just S of Longvilliers and N of Bréxent-Enocq, ENE of Etaples, 6 km N of Montreuil-sur-Mer
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Additional Comments: re-cycled font (formerly a capital in a nearby abbey)
Font Notes:
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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. Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM62001034]: "fonts baptismaux [...] Taillés dans un ancien chapiteau [...] Proviennent de l'abbaye de Longvillers [...] 13e siècle".
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 410216 5597960
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: capital, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.