Richebourg nr. Béthune
Image copyright © Open Churches, 2022
No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
Results: 6 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Datant du XVIe siècle ils sont en grès, mais endommagés durant la Grande Guerre ils sont depuis recouvert de ciment projeté. La cuve octogonale repose sur un chapiteau retourné." [NB: is the base really an upturned capital, as the caption suggests?]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Open Churches, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in Open Churches [https://openchurches.eu/en/churches/saint-laurent-richebourg-ndf] [accessed 13 May 2022]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
design element - motifs - scotia
Scene Description: all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Open Churches, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in Open Churches [https://openchurches.eu/en/churches/saint-laurent-richebourg-ndf] [accessed 13 May 2022]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de l'église Saint-Laurent de Richebourg."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Floflo62, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 31 October 2013 by Floflo62 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richebourg_(62)_-_Eglise_-_2.JPG] [accessed 13 May 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of stoup in context
![Source caption: "Holy Water. Comme les fonts baptismaux et le Christ aux liens, ce bénitier date des travaux d'agrandissement de l'église au XVIe siècle. Ici aussi il s'agit d'un réemploi d'un ancien chapiteau en grès dont la base octogonale fait maintenant office de bénitier. La date 1502 gravée dessus semble apocryphe." [NB: if it is a re-cycled object, would it not be the former base of a baptismal font?]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1220513013_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Holy Water. Comme les fonts baptismaux et le Christ aux liens, ce bénitier date des travaux d'agrandissement de l'église au XVIe siècle. Ici aussi il s'agit d'un réemploi d'un ancien chapiteau en grès dont la base octogonale fait maintenant office de bénitier. La date 1502 gravée dessus semble apocryphe." [NB: if it is a re-cycled object, would it not be the former base of a baptismal font?]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Open Churches, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in Open Churches [https://openchurches.eu/en/churches/saint-laurent-richebourg-ndf] [accessed 13 May 2022]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
design element - motifs - scotia
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Open Churches, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in Open Churches [https://openchurches.eu/en/churches/saint-laurent-richebourg-ndf] [accessed 13 May 2022]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of stoup
![Source caption: "Holy Water. Comme les fonts baptismaux et le Christ aux liens, ce bénitier date des travaux d'agrandissement de l'église au XVIe siècle. Ici aussi il s'agit d'un réemploi d'un ancien chapiteau en grès dont la base octogonale fait maintenant office de bénitier. La date 1502 gravée dessus semble apocryphe." [NB: if it is a re-cycled object, would it not be the former base of a baptismal font?]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1220513014_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Holy Water. Comme les fonts baptismaux et le Christ aux liens, ce bénitier date des travaux d'agrandissement de l'église au XVIe siècle. Ici aussi il s'agit d'un réemploi d'un ancien chapiteau en grès dont la base octogonale fait maintenant office de bénitier. La date 1502 gravée dessus semble apocryphe." [NB: if it is a re-cycled object, would it not be the former base of a baptismal font?]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Open Churches, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in Open Churches [https://openchurches.eu/en/churches/saint-laurent-richebourg-ndf] [accessed 13 May 2022]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
Font ID: 23947RIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Laurent
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Notes: medieval church 12thC; replaced 16thC; church destroyed in WWI; re-built soon thereafter (1918-1925)
Church Address: Place du Général de Gaulle, 62136 Richebourg, France
Site Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D166, 10 km SW of Béthune, 20-25 km W of Lille
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Flandre française
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
Click to view
Present baptismal font in this church noted in Open Churches https://openchurches.eu/fr/edifices/saint-laurent-richebourg-ndf] [accessed 13 May 2022]: "les fonts baptismaux en grès du XVIe s." An earlier font here, perhaps the one from the 12th-century church, is probably the one 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. There is a holy-water stoup in this church that resembles the base of a late-Gothic baptismal font [cf. ImagesArea]
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 481513 5603042
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.579, 2.73889
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 34′ 44.4″ N, 2° 44′ 20″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal