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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "L'église"

Image Source: digital photograph 21 July 2013 by Bastien pierre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:018_Broxeele_(_59470_).JPG] [accessed 8 May 2022]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "L'église"

Image Source: digital photograph 21 July 2013 by Bastien pierre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:015_Broxeele_(_59470_).JPG] [accessed 8 May 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23923BRO

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Quentin

Church Patron Saints: St. Quentin [aka Quentin of Amiens, Quintin, Quintinus]

Church Location: Kerckovehouck / rte. de Rubrouck Cd 911, 59470 Broxeele, France -- Tel.: +33 3 28 68 02 45

Country Name: France

Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France

Directions to Site: Located off the D211 [aka rue du Rubrouck], E of the D928, 15 km NE of Saint-Omer, 20-25 km SW of Dunkerque

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Saint-Omer [formerli the Diocèse de Thérouanne]

Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Comté de Flandre / Comté d'Artois / Duché de Bourgogne / Pays-Bas

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it

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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: we have no further information on the font of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.83059, 2.32162

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 49′ 50.12″ N, 2° 19′ 17.83″ E

UTM: 31U 452225 5631205

REFERENCES

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