Gorgue / De Gorge / La Gorgue
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 25 May 2008 by Berthe Delannoy [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Gorgue.JPG] [accessed 11 May 2022]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 23934GOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Pierre de La Gorgue
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: original church possibly 12thC; new church 1895; damaged 1918; restored 1920s
Church Address: 12 rue de Verdun, 59253 La Gorgue, France -- Tel.: +33 3 28 48 81 54
Site Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
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
Additional Comments: disappeared / 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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
REFERENCES
- De Wildt, Kees, "Doopvont in de Beeldenstorm", Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis, 21, Tijdschrift voor, 2018, pp. 114-120.