Gravelines

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Results: 11 records

coat of arms - unidentified

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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view of font in context

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Image Source: digital image [source unknown] Provided by Pol Herman

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24236GRA
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"
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