Bourghelles / Borghela
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24554BOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre à Bourghelles
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Rue Clemenceau, 59830 Bourghelles, France -- Tel. : +33320845031
Country Name: France
Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D93 [aka Rue Clemenceau], 15 km ESE of Lille, 10-12 km WSW of Tournai
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Lille
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1571
Century and Period: 16th century(late?), Late Gothic
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 first mentioned 12thC; enlarged 15th, 18th and 19thC
Font Notes:
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Drake (2002) lists a Tournai font in Bourghelles (no details). A font here is listed in Palissy [ref.: PM59007376] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/palissy/PM59007376] [accessed 29 December 2022]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] octogonaux en pierre grise de Soignies [...] Précisions sur l'inscription Date : 1571 [...] H = 105 ; la = 85".
In a communication between Jean-Claude Ghislain and Pol Herman (e-mail of 22 April 2022) Ghislain wrote: "Voici quelques repères relatifs aux éléments de fonts baptismaux romans tournaisiens dont vous citez les noms de lieux [...] Bourghelles (Nord) dans l'église : base".
[NB: is the base mentioned in Ghislain [cf. supra] part of the present font? / elsewhere?]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.56398, 3.2413
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 33′ 50.33″ N, 3° 14′ 28.68″ E
UTM: 31U 517090 5601367
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 85 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM59007376]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Text: 1571
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002