Givenchy-les-la-Bassee / Fossé des Crêtes le Comte / Gevenci / Gievenchy / Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée / Givenchy-lèz-la-Bassée / Givenci / Juventiacum
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: part view of the destroyed village, church included
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Image Source: digital image of an undated [ca. June 1940] photograph [source not available] reproduced in the Mairie de Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée site [http://www.givenchyleslabassee.fr/index.php/ville/histoire-de-la-ville] [accessed 11 May 2022]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Centre de Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée: sur la gauche la mairie, et à droite l'église Saint-Martin."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre André Leclercq, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 20 October 2018 by Pierre André Leclercq [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Givenchy-lès-La-Bassée_(5).jpg] [accessed 11 Ma 2022]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the modern baptismal font in the new church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Delcampe, 2022
Image Source: digital image in Delcampre [https://www.delcampe.net/static/img_large/auction/000/333/086/565_001.jpg?v=0] [accessed 11 May 2022]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 23933GIV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martin
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: village destroyed in WWI; much damaged again in WWII; present church of 1960
Church Address: rue du Moulin, 62149 Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée, France -- Tel.: +33 3 21 65 17 22
Site Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D166-D167 crossroads, 8 km E of Béthune and in its "unité urbaine", about 30 km SW of Lille
Historical Region: Artois
Additional Comments: destroyed font? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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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. The parish church in this village is mentioned in passim in B. Lesueur de Moriamé's Histoire d'Etrun: l'abbaye, la commune (Arras, 1899), unfortunately the mention does not include any information on the church itself or its history. [NB: not known which period the font that was destroyed in WWII was].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 482890 5597522