Houchin
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Christ - Agnus Dei - passant - with cross and banner
Scene Description: seen here at the extreme right
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coat of arms - unidentified
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Scene Description: several, some of them patterned
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design element - motifs - moulding - patterned
Scene Description: leaves and battons or little crosses?
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design element - motifs - varied
Scene Description: appears to be chiefly floral and foliage
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design element - motifs - vine - grapevine - with flowers and fruit
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design element - motifs and symbols
Scene Description: at least two chalices or such vessels can be discerned here
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design element - patterns - gadrooned
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: [cf. InscriptionArea]
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symbol - Sun - with human face - multi-rayed
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de l'église Saint-Omer d'Houchin."
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Houchin, église St Omer, vue du choeur et des autels latéraux"
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Houchin, église St Omer, fonts baptismaux datés de 1593. Classés Monument Historique en 1993"
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Houchin, église St Omer, fond de l'église (côté de l'autel de St Joseph). Zone des fonts baptismaux, statue de Sainte Barbe, chemin de croix en terre cuite."
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24190HOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Omer d'Houchin
Church Patron Saints: St. Omer [aka Audomar, Audomarus, Odemaars]
Church Location: rue de Béthune, 62620 Houchin, France
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D72, 1-2 km S of Béthune, 25-30 km NNW of Arras
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1593
Century and Period: 16th century(late), Baroque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church Notes: a chapel in this church is documented in 1278; the present chancel dates from 1619; present bell tower of 1761;
Font Notes:
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Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM62000870]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Grès [...] 1593". The inscription and some details of the ornamentation are noted in Épigraphie du département de Pas-de-Calais, Volume 2 (Arras, 1889) p. 35: baptismal font consisting of a round tapering basin with a band of decoration between mouldings all around the sides; this band contains an inscription identifying the priest donor, Iehan Deval; on the same band appear a set of motifs and symbols (the sun, tendrils of a vine, bunches of grapes, an Agnus Dei with a banner, as well as a shield bearing a coat of arms and, finally another inscription with Christ's monomgram and the date 1593. presumably the date of donation or memorial; the underbowl is decorated with a gadrooned pattern on which are a number of motifs and symbols, including two chalices; the top of the pedestal base is decorated with a foliate pattern, and there is another band of foliage decoration between mouldings about halfway down the stem. A simple low-dome metal cover with a round finial is on the font. The entry for this village in the Dictionnaire historique et archéologique du département du Pas-de-Calais (Arras, 1878) p. 101, reports a baptismal font in the church of Houchin made of sandstone and dated from the late 16Th century; this source also mentions that a new chapel had been donated to the church here in 1278.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.482417, 2.625298
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 28′ 56.7″ N, 2° 37′ 31.07″ E
UTM: 31U 473416 5592337
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: French
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: basin sides
Inscription Text: "M IEHAN DE / DIEVAL CVRE / IHS / 1593"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: low-dome with knob finial