Arras No. 3

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Arras." [NB: re-built 1920-1927 after WWI destruction]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chabe01, 2018

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 11 Match 2018 by Chabe01 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_St_Jean_Baptiste_Arras_7.jpg]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Blick vom Belfried auf Kirche St. Johannes der Täufer, Arras, Département Pas-de-Calais, Region Oberfrankreich (ehemals Nord-Pas-de-Calais), Frankreich" [NB: re-built 1920-1927 after WWI destruction]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zairon, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph 21 July 2016 by Zairon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arras_Blick_vom_Belfried_auf_St._Jean-Baptiste.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Arras (département du Pas-de-Calais, France) : vue intérieure de l'église Saint-Jean-Baptiste" [NB: re-built 1920-1927 after WWI destruction]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marc Ryckaert, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph 5 December 2017 by Marc Ryckaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arras_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_R01.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2022]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Arras (département du Pas-de-Calais, France) : vue intérieure de l'église Saint-Jean-Baptiste" [NB: re-built 1920-1927 after WWI destruction]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marc Ryckaert, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph 5 December 2017 by Marc Ryckaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arras_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_R03.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2022]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chatsam, 2020

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 26 July 2020 by Chatsam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_of_Église_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_d'Arras_101.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2022]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Arras" [NB: re-built 1920-1927 after WWI destruction]

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Image Source: digital photograph 26 July 2020 by Chatsam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_of_Église_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_d'Arras_101.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23971ARR
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Jean Baptiste d'Arras
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: 1 rue Wacquez Glasson, 62000 Arras, France -- Tel.: +33 3 21 71 50 99
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: The church is located in Arras city centre, W of the D917 [aka Bld. de Strasburg]. Arras is located 35-40 km SW of Lille
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
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 dcumenting it
Church Notes: 12thC church; demolished 1564; re-built with dedication to 'Saint-Nicolas-des-Fossés'; became 'temple de la Raison' with the Revolution; in 1803 became provisional cathedral dedicated to St John the Baptist; became parochial under the same advocation when the new cathedral was built in 1833; destroyed in WWI bombings of 1915; re-built in 1920-1927
M. le comte d'Héricourt noted in a lecture entitled 'Notice sur l'église de Saint-Jean-Baptiste à Arras', in the Commission départementale des monuments historiques du Pas-de-Calais (1849), the discovery of fragments of a baptismal font buried within the church; the discovery was made on 14 August 1839 by local workers engaged in the re-paving of the church interior. [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the fragments]. The present font of the church re-built in the 1920s is modern [cf. ImagesArea]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.289996, 2.779766
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 17′ 23.99″ N, 2° 46′ 47.16″ E
UTM: 31U 484312 5570898