Caestre / Caëstre / Kaaster
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "L’église St Omer de Caëstre (Nord, France)."
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Image Source: digital photograph April 2009 by Codepem [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caestre-01.jpg] [accessed 8 May 2022]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: " l’église Saint-Omer Caëstre, Nord, France"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre André Leclercq, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 17 September 2015 by Pierre André Leclercq [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caestre,_l’église_Saint-Omer_(2).jpg] [accessed 8 May 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23924CAE
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Omer à Caëstre
Church Patron Saints: St. Omer [aka Audomar, Audomarus, Odemaars]
Church Location: 40 Av. du Général de Gaulle, 59190 Caëstre, France -- Tel.: +33 3 28 40 16 25
Country Name: France
Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the confluence of the D61, D933 and D947, 5-6 km NE of Hazebrouck, just W of the border with Belgium, about 50 km NW of Lille
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Lille
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Fladre
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: 14th-16thC tower; church re-built in 1793 after a fire; re-built 1880-1884; damaged in WWI and WWII; restored 1963
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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:
50.7594,
2.6044
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 45′ 33.84″ N,
2° 36′ 15.84″ E
UTM: 31U 472098 5623144