Wicres / Vuicres / Wicre / Wijker
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arch heads
Scene Description: all around the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wéo, la télé Hauts-de-France, 2023
Image Source: screen capture of a 29 June 2023 video by Wéo, la télé Hauts-de-France [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhPjHHjVxIA] [accessed 20 September 2024]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: donor label of ca. 1905 [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wéo, la télé Hauts-de-France, 2023
Image Source: screen capture of a 29 June 2023 video by Wéo, la télé Hauts-de-France [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhPjHHjVxIA] [accessed 20 September 2024]
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view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: showing the shallow metal insert
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wéo, la télé Hauts-de-France, 2023
Image Source: screen capture of a 29 June 2023 video by Wéo, la télé Hauts-de-France [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhPjHHjVxIA] [accessed 20 September 2024]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "L'église Saint-Vaast de Wicres (Nord). D'origine médiévale (XIIème siècle), l'église a été agrandie en 1895. Partiellement détruite au cours de la première guerre mondiale, elle est restaurée et réouverte au début des années 1920."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Velvet, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 8 November 2008 by Velvet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wicres_St-Vaast.jpg] [accessed 20 September 2024]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wéo, la télé Hauts-de-France, 2023
Image Source: screen capture of a 29 June 2023 video by Wéo, la télé Hauts-de-France [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhPjHHjVxIA] [accessed 20 September 2024]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wéo, la télé Hauts-de-France, 2023
Image Source: screen capture of a 29 June 2023 video by Wéo, la télé Hauts-de-France [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhPjHHjVxIA] [accessed 20 September 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25714WIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Vaast de Wicres
Church Patron Saints: St. Vedast [aka Foster, Vaast, Vedastus]
Church Location: 17 rue de l'Eglise / 2-38 Rue Théodore Brasme, 59134 Wicres, France -- Tel.: +33 3 20 29 14 59
Country Name: France
Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D41D, S of the N41, 16 km ESE of Lille, 33 km N of Arras
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Lille
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the W entranceway
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
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: medieval church; enlarged 1189; renovated 1736; enlarged 1895; severely damaged in WWI; restored 1920;
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font made of blue limestone probably in the 12th century listed in Palissy [ref.: PM59007592]: "Fonts baptismaux datés, sans certitude, du 12e siècle [...] Pierre (bleu) [...] H = 63 ; d = 95". The Histoire de la commune by René Lantoine in the Commune de Wicres [https://www.wicres.fr/vie-locale/histoire-de-la-commune] [accessed 20 September 2024] reports a baptismal font of sandstone in the parish church of the parish church: "Les fonts baptismaux en grès avaient été offerts par la famille Cuvelier, puis rachetés par Monsieur Chombart (1905) qui les redonna peu de temps après à l'église (archives de la Mairie)". The French Wikipedia entry for Wicres [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicres] [accessed 20 September 2024] mentions a 12th-century baptismal font in the parish church: "une cuve baptismale du XIIe siècle". The font is visible in a short video of the village by Wéo, la télé Hauts-de-France [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhPjHHjVxIA] [accessed 20 September 2024]. The side of the font bears a modern label with the name of the 1905 donor, Monsieur Chombart; the original donor was the Cuvelier family [https://www.thierryprouvost.com/CUVELIER-PROUVOST.html] [accessed 20 September 2024]. It has a round metal cover with a cross finial. The font is mentioned in the 14 August 2022 edition of La Voix du Nord [https://www.lavoixdunord.fr/1216503/article/2022-08-14/les-plus-petits-villages-des-weppes-1-une-balade-wicres] [accessed 20 September 2024], where it is noted that it was used as water-trough for horses in WWI: "L’église est d’origine médiévale : elle est déjà agrandie en 1189. Elle a été fortement agrandie en 1895 et, peu touchée par la Grande Guerre, elle a été restaurée en 1920. En entrant, à droite, se trouvent des fonds baptismaux du XIIIe siècle offerts par la famille Cuvelier, dont une tombe orne le hall d’entrée de l’église : celle d’Anselme-François Cuvelier, décédé en 1699. Les fonts baptismaux ont servi… d’abreuvoir à chevaux pendant la Grande Guerre!"
A communication to BSi from Pol Herman (e-mail of 10 September 2024) adds: "This font [...] looks Romanesque. I have the impression that it is made out of limestone. Geographically, one could expect it to be Tournai-limestone, but the design of the font is very different from the typical Tournai-type and Mosan fonts. In Belgium, only the font of Hergenrath in arkose could be compared to it. The font of Wicres resembles old German fonts. Les fonts baptismaux en grès avaient été offerts par la famille Cuvelier, puis rachetés par Monsieur Chombart (1905) qui les redonna peu de temps après à l'église (archives de la Mairie). History of the family Cuvelier : https://www.thierryprouvost.com/CUVELIER-PROUVOST.html".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.57135, 2.86598
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 34′ 16.86″ N, 2° 51′ 57.53″ E
UTM: 31U 490509 5602168
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: cylindrical (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: shallow metal insert
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal
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: 2024-09-20 00:00:00. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.