Clairfayts / Claro Fageto

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: all down the basin sides

Image Source: digital photograph 16 April 2015 in L'Avesnois: ses villes, ses villages [https://villesetvillagesdelavesnois.org/clairfayts/clairfayts_eglise_fonts_baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 16 October 2022]

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Scene Description: all down the stem of the base

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inscription

Scene Description: on the upper surface of the octagonal-to-square lower base

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Clairfayts (Nord, Fr) église coté chevet"

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 7 July 2011 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clairfayts_(Nord,_Fr)_église_coté_chevet.jpg] [accessed 16 October 2022]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Clairfayts (Nord, Fr) église coté tour"

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 7 July 2011 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clairfayts_(Nord,_Fr)_église_coté_tour.jpg] [accessed 16 October 2022]

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Jean-Paul Delcour (EONDF) in Open Churches [https://openchurches.eu/fr/edifices/saint-paul-clairfayts-ndf] [accessed 16 October 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24373CLA

Church/Chapel: Eglise de la Conversion-de-Saint-Paul de Clairfayts

Church Patron Saints: The Conversion of St. Paul

Church Location: 59740 Clairfayts, France

Country Name: France

Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France

Directions to Site: Located off (NW) the D104 [aka rue Haute] and D83 [aka rue d'Orbaye] crossroads, 4-5 km SE of Solre-le-Château, just W of the border with Belgium

Historical Region: L'Avesnois

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1521

Century and Period: 16th century(early),

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it

Church Notes: church of 1556 -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00107433]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font noted and illustrated in the entry for this church in Open Churches [https://openchurches.eu/fr/edifices/saint-paul-clairfayts-ndf] [accessed 16 October 2022]: "Les fonts de Clairfayts sont en pierre grise du pays et portent sur le pied la date 1521." The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with graded mouldings, raised on a slender stem also de corated with multiple mouldings, and an octagonal-to-square lower base with an inscription that dates the font to 1521. Metal font cover of moulded sides.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.157676, 4.122738

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 9′ 27.64″ N, 4° 7′ 21.86″ E

UTM: 31U 580199 5556765

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: top surface of the lower base block

Inscription Text: N/A [includes the date 1521]

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, brass?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]