Merris / Merrens
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "L'église Saint Laurent Merris, Nord.- (Nord-Pas-de-Calais).- France " [NB: new church of 1926 replaced the previous building destroyed in WWI]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre André Leclercq, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 24 March 2022 by Pierre André Leclercq [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merris_Église_Saint-Laurent.jpg] [accessed 12 May 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23942MER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Laurent à Merris
Phone: +33 3 28 49 05 11
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: 1 Pl. de l'Église, 59270 Merris, France -- Tel.: +33 3 28 49 05 11
Country Name: France
Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located S of D642 [aka route d'Hazebrouck], 6-7 km E of Hazebrouck, about 40 km NW 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: 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: 16thC church destroyed in WWI; re-built 1926; restored 2015
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. [NB: we have no information on the present font in this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.71645, 2.6611
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 42′ 59.22″ N, 2° 39′ 39.96″ E
UTM: 31U 476075 5618349
REFERENCES
De Wildt, Kees, "Doopvont in de Beeldenstorm", Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis, 21, Tijdschrift voor, 2018, pp. 114-120.