Steenwerck / Estenwerck / Steenwerc / Steenwerk / Steinwerc / Stuuinwercke

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: " L'église de Steenwerck." -- the new church of 1923 replaced the earlier church destroyed in April 1918 during WWI

Image Source: digital photograph 30 April 2013 by Velvet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steenwerck_eglise_arr_ass.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 7 May 2022]

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view of church exterior in context - sothwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "L'église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Steenwerck Nord Hauts-de-France.- France"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 14 March 2019 by Pierre André Leclercq [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steeenwerck_Église_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_en2019_(1).jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 7 May 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23918STE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste à Steenwerck

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: 24 pl. Général de Gaulle ou Grand Place, 59181 Steenwerck, France -- Tel.: +33 3 28 49 94 59

Country Name: France

Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the D10 [aka rue du Sequenteau]-D122 [aka rue de la Lys] crossroads, WNW of Lille

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Lille

Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais / La Flandre française / Comté de Flandre

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1567

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 it

Church Notes: church documented by 1182 [on the site of a former Roman temple]; destroyed in April 1918 in WWI; re-built 1923; restored 2020

Font Notes: Click to view

A beautiful font ["de beaux fonts baptismaux"] in this church is reported in Charles Edmond Henri de Coussemaker's Troubles religieux du XVIe siècle dans la Flandre maritime, 1560-1570, Volume 1, p. 47-48 (Bruges, 1876). Noted in Kees de Wildt's Doopvont de Beeldenstorm (2018: 114-120) as one of a number of baptismal fonts of the Westerkwartier (then part of Flanders, later in France) having been desecrated, damaged or destroyed during the Iconoclastic Fury of 1566. [NB: if the font was destroyed by 'les Gueux' in 1566 a new font would have been been made/acquired in 1567 to replace it]. The entry for this church in Pormena [http://pormenaz.free.fr/Steenwerck.php] [accessed 7 May 2022] reports: "L’église abrite des fonts baptismaux de 1567." The entry for this church in Petid Futé [https://www.petitfute.com/v26492-steenwerck-59181/c1173-visites-points-d-interet/c925-edifice-religieux/c927-eglise-cathedrale-basilique-chapelle/89300-eglise-saint-jean-baptiste.html] [accessed 7 May 2022] notes: "À l’intérieur, vous pourrez admirer les fonts baptismaux du XVIe siècle". Similar information is noted in https://flandrefrancaise.pagesperso-orange.fr/Eglises/pages_eglises/steenwerck.htm [accessed 7 May 2022]: "elle posséde des fonts baptismaux de 1567". The entry for this church in Fondation du Patrimoine [https://www.fondation-patrimoine.org/les-projets/eglise-saint-jean-baptiste-de-steenwerck] [accessed 7 May 2022] mentions a baptismal font as part of the new furnishings designed by the architect Armand Lemay for the new church: "Il la dessine sur un plan basilical comportant trois vaisseaux et commande la statuaire et un bel ensemble mobilier à Maurice Ringot, sculpteur-marbrier : de nombreuses statues, trois autels, deux stalles, des fauteuils pour les officiants, des fonds [sic] baptismaux et un chemin de croix."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 2.777250

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 40' 39.0" N, 50.677510

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Text: [1567]

REFERENCES

De Wildt, Kees, "Doopvont in de Beeldenstorm", Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis, 21, Tijdschrift voor, 2018, pp. 114-120.