Laventie / Wentie
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Scene Description: Source caption: " A shell wrecked church in France [Laventie]." [NB: This image is taken from the H. D. Girdwood collection of propaganda photographs produced for the Government of India in 1915 / This file has been provided by the British Library from its digital collections. It is also made available on a British Library website. Catalogue entry: Photo 24/(287)"]
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Image Source: digital image of a 9 August 1915 B&W photograph [Photo 24/(287)] by H.D. Girdwood, from the H. D. Girdwood collection [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_shell_wrecked_church_in_France_Laventie_(Photo_24-287).jpg] [accessed 12 May 2022]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Laventie, Place du 8 mai. À gauche, l'église Saint-Vaast, à droite, l'Hôtel de Ville."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Laika, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 15 September 2012 by Laika [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Place_du_8_mai_à_Laventie,_église_Saint-Vaast_et_Hôtel_de_Ville.JPG] [accessed 12 May 2022]
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![Source caption: "fonts baptismaux dans l'église de Laventie " [NB: the modern font -- cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1220512006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "fonts baptismaux dans l'église de Laventie " [NB: the modern font -- cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © André Lemoine, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 1 January 2012 by André Lemoine [https://www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php?title=Fichier:Laventie_fonts_baptismaux.JPG] [accessed 12 May 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23938LAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Vaast à Laventie
Church Patron Saints: St. Vedast [aka Foster, Vaast, Vedastus]
Church Location: 1 pl. du 8 Mai, 62840 Laventie, France -- Tel.: +33 3 21 27 64 53
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the RD947, 12 km NE of Béthune, 20 km W of Lille, 13 km E of the border with Belgium
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Lille
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Pays de l'Alleu / Flandre française
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
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: earlier church, built at different times, destroyed in 1914, WWI; re-built 1929
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. A communication by L. Déjardin in La guerre en Artois: Paroles épiscopales. Documents. Récits (Paris, 1916), p. 371, describes the damage to the church since November 1914: "l'Léglise de Laventie n'est plus qu'un cadavre d'église" but points out the baptismal font escaped destruction: "on a put conserver les fonts baptismaux" [NB: we have no information on which period/date the font that managed to survive in 1914 was]. The present font in this church is modern [cf. ImagesArea].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 37′ 44.04″ N, 2° 46′ 19.2″ E
REFERENCES
De Wildt, Kees, "Doopvont in de Beeldenstorm", Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis, 21, Tijdschrift voor, 2018, pp. 114-120.