Valenciennes No. 2
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "L'église Saint-Géry de Valenciennes (Nord, France)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Potrowl, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 27 September 2014 by Peter Potrowl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valenciennes_-_Église_Saint-Géry_-_18.jpg] [accessed 30 November 2023]
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view of church interior - west end
Scene Description: Source caption: "L'église Saint-Géry de Valenciennes (Nord, France)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Potrowl, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 27 September 2014 by Peter Potrowl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valenciennes_-_Église_Saint-Géry_-_3.jpg] [accessed 30 November 2023]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Valenciennes intérieur de l' église Saint Géry"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre André, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 17 March 2016 by Pierre André [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valenciennes_intérieur_de_l'_église_Saint_Géry.jpg] [accessed 30 November 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "La nef de l'église Saint-Géry à Valenciennes."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Velvet, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 23 April 2014 by Velvet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valenciennes_st_gery_int_pano.jpg] [accessed 30 November 2023]
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view of stoup
![showing the 18thC stoup [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1231130026_compressed.png)
Scene Description: showing the 18thC stoup [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Potrowl, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 27 September 2014 by Peter Potrowl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valenciennes_-_Église_Saint-Géry_-_3.jpg] [accessed 30 November 2023]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 25109VAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: n.d.
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint Géry
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel/choir
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Géry de Cambrai [aka Djèri, Gau, Gaugericus, Gorik]
Church Notes: early-13thC church; bell tower added 1851; damaged in WWII in 1944; restored 1965 -- church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00107849]
Church Address: Rue de Paris, 59300 Valenciennes, France -- Tel.: +33 3 27 32 59 62
Site Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located 45 km from Lille, about 50 km NE of Cambrai. The church is located inside the ring road, in the historic centre of town
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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A baptismal font made of marble in the 17th century and located in the choir/chancel of this church is listed in Palissy [ref.: PM59006013]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Marbre (blanc, noir) : taillé [...] 17e siècle [...] H = 107 ; d = 85 (cuve) [...] Emplacement de l’œuvre dans l’édifice: Choeur". Also listed for this church, Palissy [ref.: PM59006014] is an 18th-century holy-water stoup located at the noth end of the west side [cf. ImagesArea]. The entry for this church in Eglise Saint Géry - Basilique Notre Dame du Saint Cordon - Ancienne église Saint Nicolas - Eglise réformée - Chapelle Saint Joseph dite "chapelle des Pères Maristes" [http://pormenaz.free.fr/Valenciennes.php] [accessed 30 November 2023] mentions "une tête de Christ, œuvre du valenciennois Henri Lemaire (1857) placée sur les anciens fonts baptismaux", but does not give any further information on the old font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 537022 5578643
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.3587, 3.52047
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 21′ 31.32″ N, 3° 31′ 13.69″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 107 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM59006013]