Maredsous / Fabvril / Le Favril
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![Source caption: "Chateau à Maredsous" [NB: the font originally from Le Favril, France, was moved to this location in Belgium [cf. FontNotes]]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1250110004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chateau à Maredsous" [NB: the font originally from Le Favril, France, was moved to this location in Belgium [cf. FontNotes]]
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Scene Description: includes the date of the construction of the font and the new church at Le Favril [cf. InscriptioArea]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 25778FAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1672
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century
Church / Chapel Name: Château-Ferme de Maredsous
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Previous Font Location(s): Eglise paroissiale Saint-Nicolas de Le Favril, Le Village, 59550 Le Favril, France
Church Notes: a church is documented in Le Favril in 1131 and 1237; re-built ca. 1699 and 20thC [source: http://patrimoine-avesnois.fr/chemin/le-favril/ [accessed 10 January 2025]]
Church Address: Address & coordinates given for Le Favril [NB: Maredsous is actually in Belgium] [The Château de Maredsous is located at Rue des Artisans 1, 5537 Maredsous, Belgium]
Site Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France, France
Directions to Site: Le Favril is located off the D316-D964 crossroads, in the canton de Landrecies, about 5 km N of the departmental border with Aisne [Maredsous is located off the N96, SSW of Namur, ESE of Charleroi, in Belgium]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Cambrai
Historical Region: L'Avesnois
Additional Comments: moved font / disused font (the 17thC font from Le Favril [cf. FontNotes]) -- disppeared font? (the one from the 12thC+ church in Le Favril)
Font Notes:
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A baptismal font moved from its original parish church in Le Favril to Maredsous, documented in Christiane Soliamont and R.-Ferdinand Poswick (2013) as being originally from the parish church in Le Favril (Nord, France) and having been moved to the Château-Ferme de Maredsous, in Belgium. The font conaists of a polygonal [octagonal?] basin decorated with a torus-scotia-torus band all around the upper end, and a rounded underbowl; the sides are inscribed with the date 1672 in which the font and new church in Le Favril were constructed; it is raised on a pedestal base, also polygonal. The source [cf. supra] appears to indicate that the font was installed outside the Château-Ferme as an ornament.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font, and to Henri Botteau, archiviste of the Société archéologique et historique de l’arrondissement d’Avesnes (Nord) for the source article on the font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 551816 5550253
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.102266, 3.724558
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 6′ 8.16″ N, 3° 43′ 28.41″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: polygonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: on the sides of the basin
Inscription Text: "HUNC FONTEM / ET HANC EC/CLESIAM AE/DIFICARUNT / PAROCHIANI / DE FAV/BRIL DIE/ 2 MART / 1672"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Soliamont, Christiane, "'Fonts baptismaux égarés : l’exemple des fonts de Le Favril au château de Maredsous", XXXIX /2013, Société archéologique et historique de l’arrondissement d’Avesnes (Nord). Mémoires, 2013, pp. 33-39; p. 33-39