Witry-les-Reims / Vuytry / Witry-lès-Reims

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view of church exterior - tower - west side - porch and portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Porche de la tour de l'église donnant sur la galerie champenoise."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © G.Garitan, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph 9 May 2012 by G.Garitan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Porche_tour_galerie_champenoise_442.JPG] [accessed 3 October 2023]

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view of church exterior - west side - porch

Scene Description: Source caption: "Galerie champenoise et tour porche de l'église de Witry."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © G.Garitan, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph 9 May 2012 by G.Garitan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Porche_tour_galerie_champenoise_440.JPG] [accessed 3 October 2023]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: the church in 1921

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a 1921 B&W photograph by Léon Doucet, in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00058805] [accessed 3 October 2023]

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view of church exterior in context - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Monument et église Witry"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © G.Garitan, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph 9 May 2012 by G.Garitan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galerie_champenoise_440.JPG] [accessed 3 October 2023]

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view of church interior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Witry intérieur de l'église [...] dégats dans l'église." [ca. 1921?]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © G.Garitan, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph of an undated [ca. 1921?] B&W postcard(?) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Witry_intérieur_de_l'église.jpg] [accessed 3 October 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font in this church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mairie de Witry-lès-Reims, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph in te Mairie de Witry-lès-Reims [https://www.witry-les-reims.fr/witry-les-reims-50-Lglise_StSymphorien] [accessed 3 October 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24964WIT
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Symphorien de Witry-lès-Reims
Church Patron Saints: St. Symphorian [Symphorien d'Autun] [† ca. 200]
Church Location: Rue de l'Eglise, 51420 Witry-lès-Reims, France
Country Name: France
Location: Marne, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located off the D38-A34/E46 crossroads, 8 km NE of Reims city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Reims
Historical Region: Champagne-Ardenne
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 15th century, Medieval
Church Notes: 12thC church; modified 14th, 15thC; re-built 1893-1894; badly damaged in WWI -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00078916]
The Histoire de Witry-les-Reims et des villages situes autrefois sur son ... by "l'Abbé DESSAILLY CURE DE WITRY LES REIMS" (Reims: P.Dubois, 1870) includes the 1697 episcopal visit report which records that the baptismal font was located in the Chapelle de St-Jean ["se trouvait du côté de l' Evangile et renfermait les fonts baptismaux". Dessailly's source does not give any details of that font. The present baptismal font in this church is modern; the earlier font may have been destroyed in WWI.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.294905, 4.120117
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 17′ 41.66″ N, 4° 7′ 12.42″ E
UTM: 31U 581443 5460843