Comines No. 1

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Image copyright © [s.n.], 2007

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

on the side of the surviving fragment
Scene Description: on the side of the surviving fragment

view of basin - fragment

Interior of the 'dépôt lapidaire'; the fragment of the Tournai font is located on the right side of the table, bottom shelf
Scene Description: Interior of the 'dépôt lapidaire'; the fragment of the Tournai font is located on the right side of the table, bottom shelf

view of church exterior in context

Source caption: "Eglise St Chrysole de Comines vue du beffroi grand place "
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise St Chrysole de Comines vue du beffroi grand place "
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n.], 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 25 January 2007 [File with no machine-readable source] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_St_Chrysole_vue_du_beffroi2.jpg] [accessed 30 April 2022]
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view of context

Interior of the 'dépôt lapidaire'; the fragment of the Tournai font is located on the right side of the table, bottom shelf
Scene Description: Interior of the 'dépôt lapidaire'; the fragment of the Tournai font is located on the right side of the table, bottom shelf

INFORMATION

FontID: 23900COM
Object Type: Baptismal Font2 (fragment)
Church/Chapel: Eglise catholique Saint-Chrysole à Comines
Church Patron Saints: St. Chrysolius
Church Location: 11 Grand Place, 59560 Comines, France -- Tel.: +33 6 51 70 28 88
Country Name: France
Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off local road M2945 [aka rue de la République], S of the N58, about 25 km N of Lille [NB: half of Comines is on the French side; the othr half belongs in Belgium]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Lille
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: an early church may have existed here as early as the 3rdC; medieval collegiate church of St Peter ca. 1146; later dedicated to St Chrysolius; destroyed and re-built many times since; totally destroyed in WWI; diggins for the 1920s reconstruction discovered fragments of a Tournai font in 1925; present church early-20thC (1925-1929) -- listed church Mérimée ref.: PA59000075]: "En 1922, date de la construction de l'église du Raincy par Perret, naît le projet de reconstruction de l'église de Comines détruite par faits de guerre."
Font Notes:
***NOT TO BE MISTAKEN WITH A CHURCH OF THE SAME NAME IN COMINES (BELGIUM)*** In a communication between Jean-Claude Ghislain and Pol Herman (e-mail of 22 April 2022) Ghislain wrote: "Voici quelques repères relatifs aux éléments de fonts baptismaux romans tournaisiens dont vous citez les noms de lieux [...] Comines (Nord) dans l'église : fragment de la cuve carrée". A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 28 April 2022 informs: Diggings in the 1920s during the reconstruction of the church destroyed in WWI discovered fragments of a Tournai baptismal font in 1925. "A fragment of the square basin of a 12th century Tournai-type Romanesque baptismal font has been excavated and is now shown in the “dépôt lapidaire”"; an arcade is discernible on the fragment.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.765705, 3.007349
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 45′ 56.54″ N, 3° 0′ 26.45″ E
UTM: 31U 500518 5623771

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: fragment