Amfroipret / Ansfroi
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coat of arms - Maison de Haynin
Scene Description: "D'or, à la croix engrêlée de gueules"
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design element - motifs
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Amfroipret (Nord, Fr) église"
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Les fonts baptismaux - 1518."
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption; "Ces beaux fonts baptismaux proviennent de l’ancienne chapelle du château édifié par Pierre Brogniart et saccagé en 1651 alors qu’il appartenait aux Montmaur."
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph by J. Michalik in Mémoire [ref.: AP59W00058] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP59W00058] [accessed 27 June 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24063AMF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Nicolas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: rue de l'Église, 59144 Amfroipret, France
Country Name: France
Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located S of local road D154 [aka chem. de Roisin], just S of Saint-Vaast and the Belgian border, about 20 km ESE of Valenciennes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Cambrai
Historical Region: L'Avesnois
Font Location in Church: Inside the present church, SW end
Date: 1512? / 1514? / 1518? / 1519?
Century and Period: 16th century(early), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church Notes: present church 1860; earlier church probably a 'chapelle castrale' belonging to a 15thC castle; the castle was in ruins already in the 18thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA59000626]: "L'église d'Amfroipret est reconstruite pour les paroisses d'Amfroipret et de Bermeries entre 1860 (P.V. d'adjudication) et 1862 (P.V. Réception définitive des travaux) d'après un projet de Jules Fiévet de 1857. Le clocher est réparé en 1901 suite aux dégâts causés par la foudre."
Font Notes:
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The entry for Amfroipret in the Semaine religieuse du Diocèse de Cambrai, 1 June 1867, No. 6: 87 repoerts a monolithic baptismal font of sandstone dated 1512 in its church. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM59000003] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/palissy/PM59000003] [accessed 27 June 2022]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Grès : taillé [...] 1518 [...] Date (gravée, en relief) ; armoiries [...] La date, peut être 1514 (?) est gravée en relief sur l'un des pans [...] Les pans sont décorés d'écus portant une croix engrêlée [...] Base fût et piscine de forme hexagonale [...] Dimensions normalisées 1260 h ; 560 d (diamètre intérieur de la piscine)". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP59W00058] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP59W00058] [accessed 27 June 2022]. The entry for this church in [http://patrimoine-avesnois.fr/chemin/amfroipret/] [accessed 27 June 2022] reports: "L’église Saint-Nicolas fut construite de 1860 à 1862 avec fonts baptismaux de 1514" [after Palissy].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.27934, 3.733698
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 16′ 45.62″ N, 3° 44′ 1.31″ E
UTM: 31U 552276 5569947
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
Diameter (inside rim): 56 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 126 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM59000003]