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design element - motifs - foliage - scroll

Scene Description: on the four capitals of the outer colonnettes

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © André Lemoine, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2011 by André Lemoine [www.wikipasdecalais.fr/images/5/5c/Senlecques_fonts_baptismaux.JPG] [accessed 24 July 2017]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the base os the five supports, four of which are missing

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © André Lemoine, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2011 by André Lemoine [www.wikipasdecalais.fr/images/5/5c/Senlecques_fonts_baptismaux.JPG] [accessed 24 July 2017]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thadée Szalamacha, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by Thadée Szalamacha [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Senlecques_église.jpg] [accessed 24 July 2017]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © André Lemoine, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2011 by André Lemoine [www.wikipasdecalais.fr/images/5/5c/Senlecques_fonts_baptismaux.JPG] [accessed 24 July 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21345SEN
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Sainte-Hélène
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Church Location: place de l'Eglise, 62240 Senlecques, France
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the D254-D341 crossroads, ESE of Fesvres, 25 km ESE of Boulogne-sur-Mer
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: Pays de la Faïence de Desvres / Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic
Church Notes: present church 16thC -- La Voix du Nord edition of 31 May 2014 informs of the re-opening of this church after a 10-year long restoration
Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM62001516] as a baptismal font of the 13th century made of sandstone. A square basin with plain sides, rounded underbowl with leaf capitals at the corners; square lower base with five mouldings as the bases broad central shaft and four outer colonnettes [the four are missing], and tiny leaves at the corners. Octagonal dome-shaped wooden font cover; appears modern.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 424804 5611133

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]