Killem
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise de Killem (France, Nord)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Codepem, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 6 May 2010 by Codepem [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Killem-Eglise.JPG] [accessed 12 May 2022]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 23937KIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Michel à Killem
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Notes: original church late-11thC; destroyed; re-built 15thC; destroyed; re-built after the mid-16thC riots; restored 1854-1856; again 2007
Church Address: 60 rue Saint-Michel, 59122 Killem, France -- Tel.: +33 3 28 68 32 78
Site Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the D55 [aka rue Satint-Michel], W of the border with Belgium, 20-25 km SE of Dunkirk
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Lille
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Flandre française / Flandre maritime
Additional Comments: destroyed font?
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 font of this church was probably destroyed at the time. The present font in this church is modern.
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 469393 5645256
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.9581, 2.5642
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 57′ 29.16″ N, 2° 33′ 51.12″ E
REFERENCES
- De Wildt, Kees, "Doopvont in de Beeldenstorm", Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis, 21, Tijdschrift voor, 2018, pp. 114-120.