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)"

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 - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "La nef de l'église Saint-Géry à Valenciennes."

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 church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Valenciennes intérieur de l' église Saint Géry"

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 - west end

Scene Description: Source caption: "L'église Saint-Géry de Valenciennes (Nord, France)."

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 stoup

Scene Description: showing the 18thC stoup [cf. FontNotes]

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

FontID: 25109VAL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint Géry

Church Patron Saints: St. Géry de Cambrai [aka Djèri, Gau, Gaugericus, Gorik]

Church Location: Rue de Paris, 59300 Valenciennes, France -- Tel.: +33 3 27 32 59 62

Country Name: France

Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel/choir

Date: n.d.

Century and Period: 17th century

Church Notes: early-13thC church; bell tower added 1851; damaged in WWII in 1944; restored 1965 -- church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00107849]

Font Notes: Click to view

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.3587, 3.52047

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 21′ 31.32″ N, 3° 31′ 13.69″ E

UTM: 31U 537022 5578643

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 107 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM59006013]