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view of church exterior - southwest view

Source caption: "Nouvelle-Église (Pas-de-Calais) église Notre-Dame-du-Mont- Carmel"
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Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 21 August 2013 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nouvelle-Église_(Pas-de-Calais)_église_Notre-Dame-du-Mont-_Carmel_(02).JPG]
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view of church interior

the modern font is partially visible in the foreground, left side; the church itself, of 1875 and much restored after WWI, had replaced earlier churches going back to the medieval period
Scene Description: the modern font is partially visible in the foreground, left side; the church itself, of 1875 and much restored after WWI, had replaced earlier churches going back to the medieval period
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Bastien, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2018 ny Pierre Bastien, reproduced in Communes [https://www.communes.com/photo-nouvelle-eglise,372864] [accessed 12 May 2022]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 23943EGL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame-du-Mont- Carmel
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 62162 Vieille-Église, France
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D219-D229 crossroads, 9-10 km E of Calais, 30 km W of Dunkirk, 35 km N of Saint-Omer
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Flandre française
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: Medieval
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: chapel documented her 9thC; 1875 church damaged in WWI
Font Notes:
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 present font in the much restored 1875 church is modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.925219, 2.053667
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 55′ 30.79″ N, 2° 3′ 13.2″ E
UTM: 31U 433490 5641935

REFERENCES

De Wildt, Kees, "Doopvont in de Beeldenstorm", Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis, 21, Tijdschrift voor, 2018, pp. 114-120.