Fleurbaix / Florbaiz / Vloerbeek
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view of church exterior - southwest end - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kerk van Fleurbaix."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Vanno, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 12 November 2006 by Vanno [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kerk_van_Fleurbaix.jpg] [accessed 11 May 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23930FLE
Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame-du-Joyel
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 2 pl. Jean le Vasseur, 62840 Fleurbaix, France -- Tel.: +33 3 21 27 64 53
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D171, 4-5 km SW of Armentières, about 20 km WNW of Lille, near the border with Belgium
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Lille
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Flandre française / Pays de l'Alleu / Lalloeu / Comté de Flandre / Pays d'Artois
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are garteful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: medieval church destroyed in WWI -- present church consecrated 1929
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: the font here was probably destroyed when the church itself fell under WWI bombings]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 39′ 7″ N,
2° 50′ 0″ E
UTM: 31U 488179 5611165
REFERENCES
De Wildt, Kees, "Doopvont in de Beeldenstorm", Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis, 21, Tijdschrift voor, 2018, pp. 114-120.