Tilloy-les-Mofflaines / Thilloy-lez-Mouflines / Tieilloit / Tilgidum / Tilleium / Tilloi / Tilloit / Tilloy-aux-Fisses [Fosses?] / Tilloy-juxta-Moflanis / Tilloy-lès-Mofflaines / Tilloy-lez-Mofflines / Tiloetum / Tylloit / Tyloi

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the church in ruins 30 April 1917 after its destruction in WWI

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Image Source: digital image of a 1917 B&W photograph in the municipal web site [www.tilloylesmofflaines.fr/presentation/eglise-saint-brice] [accessed 27 July 2017]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Floflo62, 2014

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 June 2014 by Floflo62 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tilloy-lès-Mofflaines_-_Eglise.JPG] [accessed 27 July 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: L'avenue Charles-de-Gaulle: a typical cluster in a French village: café-tabac, mairie, église

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Floflo62, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2014 by Floflo62 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tilloy-lès-Mofflaines_-_Mairie.JPG] [accessed 27 July 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 21355TIL
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Brice
Church Patron Saints: St. Brictius [aka Brice of Tours]
Church Location: 62217 Tilloy-lès-Mofflaines, France
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located in the frame between the D37E1-D60-D939 confluence, between Saint-Laurent-Blangy (N) and Neuville-Vitasse (S), ESE of Arras
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: Pyas d'Artois
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic
Church Notes: medieval church documented 15thC; present church early-17th; destroyed in 1794; re-built 1832; again after WWI
Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM62001550] as a baptismal font carved out of a 13th-century sandstone capital ["Taillés dans un ancien chapiteau"]. This font is mentioned in 'Cuves baptismales et fonts baptismaux : évolution formelle avant le XVIe siècle' [www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/CATALOGUES/fontsbapt/fontsbapt_histav16e/html/fontsbapt_histav16e.html] [accessed 27 July 2017] in a group of fonts carved out of 13th-century capitals: "Comme au siècle précédent certaines cuves peuvent être creusées dans un chapiteau comme à Haute-Avesnes (62), Maresville [...], Tilloy-lès-Mofflaines (62) ou Saint-Sauveur (80)."

COORDINATES

UTM: 2.8172

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: capital-shaped