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Scene Description: Source caption: "Audruicq (Pas-de-Calais) église Saint-Martin"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux de l'église d'Audruicq" [19thC font [cf. FontNotes]]

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Image Source: digital photograph 1 June 2011 by the Commission diocésaine d'art sacré (CDAS) [https://www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php?title=Fichier:Audruicq_église_(2).JPG] [accesse 12 August 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24197AUD
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: 210 rue de l'Église, 62370 Audruicq, France
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off local road D219E1 [aka rue du Général Leclerc] about 20 km ESE of Calais
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: early church dedicated to Saint Blaise documented 1139; later chapel of Saint-Nicolas, that would later become the present church ca. 1700 dedicated to St. Martin
Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM62004262] as a 19th-century font made of marble. There is a Palissy [ref.: PM62004257] for a "bénitier" here but it mentions no date or period for it. The present font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a pattern of large scallops and leaves, raised on a round-to-octagonal pedestal base; the base appears to have been painted with a thick grey coating. The wooden cover is octagonal with moulded sides and a Latin cross finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.878819, 2.075067
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 52′ 43.75″ N, 2° 4′ 30.24″ E
UTM: 31U 434929 5636757