Gorgue / De Gorge / La Gorgue
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23934GOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Pierre de La Gorgue
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: 12 rue de Verdun, 59253 La Gorgue, France -- Tel.: +33 3 28 48 81 54
Country Name: France
Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D122D, 15 km WSW of Armentières, 33 km WNW of Lille, 56 km SE of Dunkirk
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Saint-Omer [previously in the Diocèse de Thérouanne]
Historical Region: Flandre française / Pays de Lalloeu
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
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: original church possibly 12thC; new church 1895; damaged 1918; restored 1920s
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.
REFERENCES
De Wildt, Kees, "Doopvont in de Beeldenstorm", Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis, 21, Tijdschrift voor, 2018, pp. 114-120.