Auchy-les-Hesdin / Auchy-lès-Hesdin / Auchy-les-Moines
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise abbatiale Saint-Georges d'Auchy-lès-Hesdin"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Claudine Paul, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 6 January 2012 by Claudine Paul [http://www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php?title=Fichier:Auchy-lès-Hesdin_-_Eglise_abbatiale.JPG] [accessed 11 August 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption; "Nef de l'église d'Auchy-lès-Hesdin "
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Image Source: digital photograph 2011 by the Commission diocésaine d'Art sacré (CDAS) [https://www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php?title=Fichier:Auchy-les-Hesdin_église_(3).JPG] [accessed 11 August 2022]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the present font is 19thC
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Image Source: digital photograph 2011 by the Commission diocésaine d'Art sacré (CDAS) [https://www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php?title=Fichier:Auchy-les-Hesdin_église_(30).JPG] [accessed 11 August 2022]
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view of stoup
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bénitier de l'église d'Auchy-lès-Hesdin "
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Image Source: digital photograph 2011 by the Commission diocésaine d'Art sacré (CDAS) [https://www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php?title=Fichier:Auchy-les-Hesdin_église_(32).JPG] [accessed 11 August 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24193AUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne abbatiale] [Saint Silvin et] Saint Georges
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: rue de la Place, 62770 Auchy-lès-Hesdin, France
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located at the D94-D108-D123 conrofluence, 6 km NE of Hesdin, bout 60 km WNW of Arras
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Century and Period: Medieval
Church Notes: Benedictine abbey founded 670; destryed 881 by Normands/Vikinds; re-founded 1072; re-built 12thC; at the Revolution the abbey became a cotton mill and the church parochial -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00108182]
Font Notes:
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The entry for this abbey in Vallées d'Opale [https://www.valleesdopale.com/fr/offre-touristique/85553-eglise-saint-silvin-saint-georges/] [accessed 11 August 2022] reports the present baptismal font as modern, of the late-19th century. [NB: we have no information on the font(s) of the abbey church here since its original founding in 670 AD].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.399043, 2.102991
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 23′ 56.56″ N, 2° 6′ 10.77″ E
UTM: 31U 436248 5583384