Quievrain No. 1 / Kievraing / Kiévraing / Kievrin / Quieuvrain / Quiévrain

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view of church exterior - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint-Martin à Quiévrain
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25436QUI
Object Type: Baptismal Font2 (fragment)
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Pl. du Parc, 7380 Quiévrain, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Hainaut, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located off the N553 aka Rue Emile Cornez], in the municipality and 5 km N of Honnelles, just E of the border with France
Font Location in Church: [cf, FontNotes]
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: an early-medieval oratory with burials may have existed here before the building of a Romanesque church in 1148, which possibly integrated the castle chapel into its chancel; re-built 1550; damaged in several 17thC occasions; resored 1680 and 1686; restored 1921 and 1855 after each of the World Wars
Font Notes:
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M.H.'s Villes et villages de la vallée de la Haine [http://www.valleedelahaine.be/wp/category/villes-et-villages/quievrain/] [accessed 15 April 2024] reports the presence of an 18th-century baptismal font in this church which had replaced the 12th-century font destroyed by the iconoclasts, of which only its base of blue limestone remained ["Fonts baptismaux, XVIIIème (ayant remplacé ceux du XIIème, qui furent détruits par iconoclastes; il en reste la base en pierre bleue)"]. [cf. BSI entry for Quievrain No. 2 for the later font in this church].
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 8 January 2024) includes excerpts of e-mail exchanges between him and Jean-Claude Ghislain as they both serahc for the present whereabouts of the surviving fragments of this font: "Jean-Claude Ghislain and myself are still looking for the fragments of a Tournai-type baptismal font that were discovered during excavations in 1955 inside the Saint-Martin church of Quiévrain. Whereabouts of font and of the archaeological reports are unknown -- Voici ce que je lis sur Internet : Découvertes archéologiques de 1955 à l’église St Martin de Quiévrain (Sources : Notes de A. Wambecq du 20/05/1955; Notes de G. Fally; Article de journal (La Voix du Nord, 24/11/1955) -- Des fouilles furent réalisées en 1955, lors de la restauration de l’église suite à l’incendie de 1943, à l’initiative de Mrs Robert Thomato, Alfred Wambecq, Auguste Bourgogne, le curé Lebas, auxquels se joignit l’entrepreneur Georges Fally. Des fouilles furent réalisées en 1955, lors de la restauration de l’église suite à l’incendie de 1943, à l’initiative de Mrs Robert Thomato, Alfred Wambecq, Auguste Bourgogne, le curé Lebas, auxquels se joignit l’entrepreneur Georges Fally [...] Au bout du bas-côté sud (sous le retable de Ste Barbe), découverte de matériel roman (église du XIIème): [...] débris de la cuve baptismale, ornée de colombes et de feuillages sculptés, en pierre bleue de Tournai, XIIème".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.36802, 3.695109
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 22′ 4.87″ N, 3° 41′ 42.39″ E
UTM: 31U 549435 5579781