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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hargnies (Nord, Fr) église, chevet" -- the new church built on a new site in 1864-1867 replaced the 15thC building demolished in 1866
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Image Source: digital photograph 27 June 2011 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hargnies_(Nord,_Fr)_église,_chevet.JPG] [accessed 18 December 2022]
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hargnies (Nord, Fr) église, façade" -- the new church built on a new site in 1864-1867 replaced the 15thC building demolished in 1866
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Image Source: digital photograph 27 June 2011 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hargnies_(Nord,_Fr)_église,_façade.JPG] [accessed 18 December 2022]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Les fonts baptismaux." -- only the lower base is part of the original 15thC font
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Image Source: digital image in L'Avesnois: ses villes, ses villages [https://villesetvillagesdelavesnois.org/hargnies/hargnies_eglise_st_pierre_fonts_baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 18 December 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24526HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: 6-12 D107, 59138 Hargnies, France
Country Name: France
Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D107-D117 crossroads, 7-8 km SE of Bavay, 8-9 km W of Maubeuge, just S of the border with Belgium
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Cambrai
Historical Region: Le Bavaisis / L'Avesnois
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century[lower base only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hainaut type font
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: the Bulletin de la Commission historique du département du Nord (1866) reports the old 15thC church as recently demolished; the new church was built 1864-1867 on a new site, east of the old church -- listed church Mérimée [ref.: IA59000628]: "L'église actuelle a été construite entre 1864 et 1867 sur un terrain situé à l'Est de l'ancienne église"
Font Notes:
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The present baptismal font in the new church is a composite; the only original part is the octagonal lower base; the stem and basin are a modern replacement. The low-pyramidal wooden cover is also modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.256788, 3.849213
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 15′ 24.44″ N, 3° 50′ 57.17″ E
UTM: 31U 560535 5567527
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: low pyramidal wooden cover; octagonal with panels; modern [http://patrimoine-avesnois.fr/chemin/hargnies/] [accessed 18 December 2022]