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angel - cherub - head - 4

Scene Description: one on each side of the square lower base

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 August 2016 by GDClio [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptistère_situé_dans_la_chapelle_nord-ouest.jpg] [accessed 26 April 2024]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: large leaves on the sides of the upper base

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 August 2016 by GDClio [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptistère_situé_dans_la_chapelle_nord-ouest.jpg] [accessed 26 April 2024]

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design element - patterns - beaded-tape

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design element - patterns - ribbed

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inscription

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Michel de Flines-lez-Raches"

Image Source: digital photograph 11 October 2018 by Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flines-lez-Raches_-_Église_Saint-Michel_(20).JPG] [accessed 26 April 2024]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Michel de Flines-lez-Raches"

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view of church interior - baptistery

Scene Description: Source caption: " Flines-lez-Raches (France - département du Nord) — Église Saint Michel - Baptistère situé dans la chapelle Nord-Ouest" -- showing the font and cover in the centre

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25464FLI

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Michel à Flines-lez-Râches

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: 4 Pl. du Général de Gaulle, 59148 Flines-lez-Raches, France -- Tel.: +33 3 27 89 15 25

Country Name: France

Location: Nord, Hautes-de-France

Directions to Site: Located off the D938 [Bd des Alliés], 10 km NE of Douai, 24-25 km SSE of Lille

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Cambrai

Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a N chapel [Chapelle des fonts baptismaux]

Date: 1554

Century and Period: 16th century(mid), Late Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it

Church Notes: possible pre-10thC wooden church; 10th-11thC building of stone; modified 12thC; modified 13th-14th, 15th-16th, 19thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00107531]

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Baptismal font of 1554 listed in Palissy [ref.: PM59002212]: "font baptismaux [...] Grès [...] Base carrée, cuve circulaire [...] H = 133 (totale) ; d = 82 (cuve) [...] Inscription Date : 1554 [...] Chapelle des fonts baptismaux". The font consists of a rouhly hemispherical basin decorated with a moulding below the rim, the date 1554, a band of beaded tape below that, and a pattern of convex ribs around the underbowl; round baluster upper base, square lower base with cherub heads on the sides. Copper dome cover with decorated arrises. Also listed for this church in Palissy [ref.: PM59002213] is a later-date holy-water stoup bearing an inscription: "Bénitier [...] Pierre noire et bleue [...] D = 56 ; pr = 16 [...] Inscription (sur la partie supérieure de la cuvette circulaire) : (...) ont donné ce bénitoire (...) 17e siècle ; 18e siècle"].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.42912, 3.17914

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 25′ 44.83″ N, 3° 10′ 44.9″ E

UTM: 31U 512724 5586359

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 82 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 113 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM59002212]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on the side of the basin

Inscription Text: "-1554-"

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, copper

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. Accessed: 2024-04-26 00:00:00. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.