Clairfayts / Claro Fageto
Image copyright © L'Avesnois: ses villes, ses villages, 2015
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L'Avesnois: ses villes, ses villages, 2015
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 - graded
Scene Description: all down the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L'Avesnois: ses villes, ses villages, 2015
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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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Clairfayts (Nord, Fr) église coté tour"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Clairfayts (Nord, Fr) église coté chevet"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
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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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Scene Description: all down the stem of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L'Avesnois: ses villes, ses villages, 2015
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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inscription
Scene Description: on the upper surface of the octagonal-to-square lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L'Avesnois: ses villes, ses villages, 2015
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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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jean-Paul Delcour (EONDF), 2022
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]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 24373CLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1521
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(early)
Church / Chapel Name: Église de la Conversion-de-Saint-Paul de Clairfayts
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Conversion of St. Paul
Church Notes: church of 1556 -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00107433]
Church Address: 59740 Clairfayts, France
Site Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
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 Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 580199 5556765
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.157676, 4.122738
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 9′ 27.64″ N, 4° 7′ 21.86″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: top surface of the lower base block
Inscription Text: N/A [includes the date 1521]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]