Gravelines
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coat of arms - unidentified
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2022
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [tirage photographique 59W00807] by Saint Aubin
Mémoire [ref.: AP59W00807] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP59W00807] [accessed 21 August 2022]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Scene Description: several, above and below the broad centre ring moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2022
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [tirage photographique 59W00807] by Saint Aubin
Mémoire [ref.: AP59W00807] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP59W00807] [accessed 21 August 2022]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - cabouchon
Scene Description: a very thick moulding decorated with 4 cabouchons set at 90-dgree angles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2022
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [tirage photographique 59W00807] by Saint Aubin
Mémoire [ref.: AP59W00807] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP59W00807] [accessed 21 August 2022]
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2022
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [tirage photographique 59W00807] by Saint Aubin
Mémoire [ref.: AP59W00807] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP59W00807] [accessed 21 August 2022]
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: digital image [source unknown] Provided by Pol Herman
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint-Willibrord in Gravelines, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © LimoWreck, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 1 April 2007 by LimoWreck [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gravelines_-_Eglise_Saint-Willibrord_2.jpg] [accessed 21 August 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint Willibrord de Gravelines, France"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christian Dumontier, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 6 May 2015 by Christian Dumontier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_de_l'intérieur_de_l'église_Saint_Willibrord.jpg] [accessed 21 August 2022]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2022
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [tirage photographique 59W00807] by Saint Aubin
Mémoire [ref.: AP59W00807] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP59W00807] [accessed 21 August 2022]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: digital image [source unknown] Provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: digital image [source unknown] Provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: digital image [source unknown] Provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 24236GRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Willibrord
Church Patron Saints: St. Willibrord [aka Willibrordus]
Church Location: rue de l'Eglise, 59820 Gravelines, France
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hautes-de-France
Directions to Site: Located at the confluence of roads D11, D11A and D119, off (N) the route nationale D240, roughly equidistant between Calais and Dunkirk
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse Arras
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Côte d'opale
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1634
Century and Period: 17th century(mid)
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it
Church Notes: -- liested in Mérimée [ref.: IA00067482]: "La nef semble bâtie limite 15e siècle 16e siècle ; la façade occidentale a été élevée à la fin du 16e siècle, comme l'atteste la date de 1598 gravée au-dessus de la porte ; et a été remaniée au début du 19e siècle ; c'est également durant le 1er quart du 19e siècle qu'ont été reconstruits le transept, le choeur et la tour de l'église actuelle sur les plans de l'architecte gravez"
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font listed in Palissy [ref.: IM59000095] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/palissy/IM59000095] [accessed 21 August 2022]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Marbre veiné (polychrome) : taillé (décor en relief méplat), incrustation à relief, poli, gravé ; marbre uni (noir, décor) [...] H = 98 ; la = 68 [...] Inscription (gravée) ; armoiries (en relief, non identifiée) [...] 5 éléments : base, pied balustre rond en 3 parties, cuve ronde. 4 cabochons de marbre noir incrustés dans le pied [...] Transcription de l'inscription : WALERAN LE VRAY S.D.WIERRE LIEUTENANT AU GOUVERNEMENT DE GREVELINGE M'AT DONNE A CESTE EGLISE PAROISSIALE LAN 1634 ; description des armoiries : de... à 2 chevrons de... accompagnés d'un chef de... [...] 1634". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP59W00807] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP59W00807] [accessed 21 August 2022]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.985133, 2.128217
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 59′ 6.48″ N, 2° 7′ 41.58″ E
UTM: 31U 438808 5648533
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Font Height (less Plinth): 98 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 68 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: IM59000095]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: French
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: "WALERAN LE VRAY S.D.WIERRE LIEUTENANT AU GOUVERNEMENT DE GREVELINGE M'AT DONNE A CESTE EGLISE PAROISSIALE LAN 1634"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal low pyramid