Saint-Jans-Cappel / Sancti Joannis Capella / Sint-Jans Kapel) / Sint-Janskappel
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 9 October 2017 by Herpoel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saintjanscappel01.jpg] [accessed 14 May 2022]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Source caption: "La tour St Jean Baptiste Saint-Jans-Cappel, Flandre française, Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie France."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre André, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 29 March 2012 by Pierre André [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_jans_Cappel,_La_tour_St_Jean_Baptiste.jpg] [accessed 14 May 2022]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
![Source caption: "à St. Jans Cappel, 1st Canadian Division headquarters. April or May 1919 / Saint-Jans-Cappel, quartier général de la 1re Division canadienne, avril ou mai 1919 [Original: April 1919; This version: May 1919]."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0220514003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "à St. Jans Cappel, 1st Canadian Division headquarters. April or May 1919 / Saint-Jans-Cappel, quartier général de la 1re Division canadienne, avril ou mai 1919 [Original: April 1919; This version: May 1919]."
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Image Source: digital image of an April 1919 [this version May 1919] B&W photograph Canada. Department of National Defence. Library and Archives Canada [PA-004474] / Canada. Ministère de la défense nationale. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada [PA-004474] [MIKAN ID no. 3404058] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A004474-v8.jpg] [accessed 14 May 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23951JAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste à Saint-Jans-Cappel
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: 55 contour de l'Église, 59270 Saint-Jans-Cappel, France -- Tel.: +33 3 28 49 05 11
Country Name: France
Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D10, 4-5 km N of Bailleul, about 40 km NW of Lille, just W of the border with Belgium
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Flandre française / Pays de L'Alloeu
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: original chapel 12th-13thC; 15thC(?) tower; 1557 church destroyed 1566 by 'les Gueux'; re-built 19thC keeping the earlier tower; badly damaged in WWI; re-built 1922
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 use at this church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.763797, 2.721451
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 45′ 49.67″ N, 2° 43′ 17.23″ E
UTM: 31U 480355 5623596