Ham-en-Artois

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: " L'église de Ham-en-Artois, Pas-de-Calais, France."

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nef centrale de l'église Saint-Sauveur d'Ham-en-Artois. Pas-de-Calais, France."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre André Leclercq, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 20 June 2019 by Pierre André Leclercq [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ham-en-Artois_intérieur_de_Église_Saint-Sauveur_(27).jpg] [accessed 15 August 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24217HAM
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne abbatiale] Saint-Sauveur
Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour
Church Location: 5-3 D94, 62190 Ham-en-Artois, France
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D94, E of the D188, 4 km NNW of Lillers, about 40 km NNW of Arras
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: Artois / Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, NW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 17th century,
Church Notes: original Benedictine abbey church said to have been founded by Enguerrand in 1080; church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00108301]: "12e siècle ; 2e quart 14e siècle ; 15e siècle ; 16e siècle ; 17e siècle"
Baptismal font listed in Palissy [ref.: PM62003871]: "Fonts baptismaux au couvercle ajouré [...] Taille de pierre [...] 17e siècle". The present font in this church consists of an octagonal basin with moulded sides and underbowl, raised on a plain octagonal stem and a splaying octagonal lower base; there are new-stone insert repairs to the upper rim of the basin; the lower base is a modern replacement. Wooden cover of curved ribs forming a hemisphere; orb-and-Latin cross finial. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.58976, 2.453228
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 35′ 23.14″ N, 2° 27′ 11.62″ E
UTM: 31U 461296 5604349

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]