Violaines
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de l'église Saint-Vaast de Violaines."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Floflo62, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 20 October 2013 by Floflo62 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_de_Violaines_-_3.JPG] [accessed 14 May 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de l'église Saint-Vaast de Violaines."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Floflo62, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 20 October 2013 by Floflo62 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_de_Violaines_-_1.JPG] [accessed 14 May 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior in context - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Violaines. L'Eglise te le cimetière. Avant la guerre"
INFORMATION
FontID: 23954VIO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Vaast à Violaines
Church Patron Saints: St. Vedast [aka Foster, Vaast, Vedastus]
Church Location: rue de la Grand'place, 62138 Violaines, France -- Tel.: +33 3 21 27 64 53
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D167E2 [aka rue de l'Eglise], W of the D947, 10 km E of Béthune, about 35 km SW of Lille
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Flandre française / Pays de L'Alloeu
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 12th, 13th, 16thC
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 date or period of the font destroyed in the mid-16th century riots; it may have been the one from the medieval church here; we have no information on the present font in use in the present church, re-built after WWI]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.539445, 2.787282
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 32′ 22″ N, 2° 47′ 14.21″ E
UTM: 31U 484926 5598633
REFERENCES
De Wildt, Kees, "Doopvont in de Beeldenstorm", Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis, 21, Tijdschrift voor, 2018, pp. 114-120.