Lorgies
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de l'église Saint-Mathieu de Lorgies."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Floflo62, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 11 July 2015 by Floflo62 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lorgies_-_Eglise.JPG] [accessed 12 May 2022]
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view of stoup
Scene Description: a wall-mounted stoup inside the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Bastien, 2000
Image Source: digital photograph 1 January 2000 by Pierre Bastien, reproduced in Communnes [https://www.communes.com/photo-lorgies,186275] [accessed 12 May 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23941LOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paeoissiale Saint-Matthieu à Lorgies
Church Patron Saints: St. Matthew
Church Location: 5 rue des Tronchants, 62840 Lorgies, France -- Tel.: +33 3 21 27 64 53
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D168 [aka rue des Tronchants], 15 km NNE of Béthune, just W of the departmental border with Nord, about 25 km WSW of Lille
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Lille
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Pays de l'Alleu / Flandre française / Comté de Flandre
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th 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: church here described as 'ancienne' in the Dictionnaire historique et archéologique du département du Pas-de [...], (Arras, 1875), Volume 2, p. 234, with Romanesque archivolts in the portal of the tower
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 church with Romanesque traces is documented in the Dictionnaire historique et archéologique du département du Pas-de [...], (1875), Volume 2, p. 234. [NB: was the font of that time the one destroyed in the mid-16th century riots?]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 485167 5601814
REFERENCES
De Wildt, Kees, "Doopvont in de Beeldenstorm", Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis, 21, Tijdschrift voor, 2018, pp. 114-120.