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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Gussignies (Nord, Fr) église Saint-Médard, vue latérale"
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Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 27 June 2011 by Hanvang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gussignies_(Nord,_Fr)_église_Saint-Médard,_vue_latérale.JPG] [accessed 27 June 2022]
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Gussignies (Nord, Fr) église Saint-Médard, façade."
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Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 27 June 2011 by Hanvang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gussignies_(Nord,_Fr)_église_Saint-Médard,_façade.JPG] [accessed 27 June 2022]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Les fonts baptismaux"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Patrimoine Avesnois, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a 17 March 2015 digital photograph in Patrimoine Avesnois [https://villesetvillagesdelavesnois.org/gussignies/gussignies.html] [accessed 27 June 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24064GUS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise catholique Saint-Médard à Gussignies
Church Patron Saints: St. Medard [aka Medardus]
Church Location: 14 rue de l'Église, 59570 Gussignies, France -- Tel.: +33 3 27 63 13 38
Country Name: France
Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off (S) local road N555, 6 km N of Saint-Vaast, just S of the border with Belgium, 18-20 km E of Valenciennes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Cambrai
Historical Region: L'Avesnois
Font Location in Church: Inside the present church, in the Chapelle des fonts baptismaux
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century[composite font?], Renaissance / Baroque [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hainaut type font
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: late-18thC present church [NB: present church is 1772 but an earlier church is depicted in a ca. 1600 pinting] -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA59000649]: "Eglise construite à la fin du 18e siècle (?). Des travaux de réparation sont exécutés en 1809 (vitraux) par l'architecte Lembourg, puis en 1840 par l'architecte Trussy, en 1907 par l'architecte Neulliès (couverture) et en 1921par l'architecte Armbruster."
Font Notes:
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Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM59004510]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] en pierre de Soignies [...] datés du 16e siècle (arrêté) ou du 17e siècle (base CAOA). [...] Dimensions normalisées: H = 80". Moulded base.
A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 6 June 2022) notes: "The baptismal font in limestone (pierre de Soignies) is of the Hainaut type. With gothic elements : octagonal. With baroque elements : bowl shaped basin. I have the impression that it is composite : basin and column/base seem to have a different style. I would put it in the 17th century."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.338058, 3.738471
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 20′ 17.01″ N, 3° 44′ 18.5″ E
UTM: 31U 552552 5576479
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (pierre de Soignies)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM59004510]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat; modern