Lez-Fontaine

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: all over the pedestal base

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Image Source: digital photograph January 2017 in Commune de Lez-Fontaine [https://www.lez-fontaine.fr/patrimoine/eglise-saint-martin] [accessed 20 December 2023]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lez-Fontaine (Nord, Fr) église, façade"

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 5 July 2011 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lez-Fontaine_(Nord,_Fr)_église,_façade.jpg] [accessed 20 December 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonds [sic] baptismaux"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Commune de Lez-Fontaine, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph January 2017 in Commune de Lez-Fontaine [https://www.lez-fontaine.fr/patrimoine/eglise-saint-martin] [accessed 20 December 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25176FON
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: 14-6 Rue du Gén de Gaulle, 59740 Lez-Fontaine, France
Country Name: France
Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D27, 13 km NE of Avesnes-sur-Helpe, 45 km SE of Valenciennes, 100 km SE of Lille
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Cambrai
Historical Region: L'Avesnois / L'Hainaut
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, S side
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 17th century,
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: Gothic 13thC church built by the Knights Hospitaller of St. John; modified 16th; restored 1856 [NB: an earlier church, now 'Chapelle de Trieu', exists still in the village]
Baptismal font listed in Palissy [ref.: PM59004556]: "Fonts baptismaux en pierre grise de Soignies [...] 17e siècle [...] H = 110". The moulded basin appears hexagonal, raised on an octagonal pedestal base adorned with multiple mouldings. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.17757, 4.0623
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 10′ 39.25″ N, 4° 3′ 44.28″ E
UTM: 31U 575850 5558914

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM59004556]