Comines No. 2

Results: 4 records
design element - motifs - floral or foliage - 4
view of font and cover
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Le baptistère de l'église Saint-Chrysole de Comines (France)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Velvet, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 24 January 2022 by Velvet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comines_eglise_st_chrysole_baptistere.jpg] [accessed 30 April 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 23901COM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
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: Inside the church, in the baptistery
Century and Period: 16th century, Late Gothic
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:
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***NOT TO BE MISTAKEN WITH A CHURCH OF THE SAME NAME IN COMINES (BELGIUM)***
Bpatismal font of stone consisting of a moulded octagonal basin raised on a plain octagonal stema nd a moulded lower base, also octagonal; on four of the sides are floral motifs carved and gilded. The font cover is moulded and octagonal, with a cross finial; perhaps of the same period as the font itself.
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
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]