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coat of arms - De mailly Family

Scene Description: "D'or à trois maillets de sinople; au chef du même chargé d'un gland feuillé de deux pièces d'or" [source: https://armorialdefrance.fr/] -- according to one of the heraldic sources the family name has many variants: Mailly, Maillie, Mailley, Maillies, Maily, Mailie, Mailey, Mailies, Maillet, Mayie, de Mailly, de Maillie, de Mailley, de Maily, de Mailie, de Mayie, la Mailly, la Maillie, la Mailley, la Maily, de Mayie, etc.

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Notre-Dame de Buire-au-Bois"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thadée Szalamacha, 2009

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 22 March 2009 by Thadée Szalamacha [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buire-au-Bois_église.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2023]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of stoup

INFORMATION

FontID: 24688BUI
Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame de Buire-au-Bois
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: D102 / rue de l'Eglise, 62390 Buire-au-Bois, France -- Tel.: +33 3 21 04 29 14
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D102, 4 km NE of Auxi-le-Château, 50+ km N of Amiens
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Amiens
Historical Region: Artois-Picardie
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century,
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic stoup
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this stoup to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: 17thC church
The entry for this church in Open Churches [https://openchurches.eu/en/churches/notre-dame-buire-au-bois-ndf] [accessed 17 April 2023; notes: "This stoup, sculpted in sandstone and placed on a wooden base, dates from the 16th or 17th century. On one of its sides are the arms of the de Mailly family (three mallets), which can be seen today on the town's coat of arms. The Mailly family has been associated with the town of Buire-au-Bois since the 13th century." [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font of this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.26289, 2.15183
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 15′ 46.4″ N, 2° 9′ 6.59″ E
UTM: 31U 439547 5568205