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Church inventory

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L'Église en totalité, y compris le décor intérieur et le pavement, a été inscrite aux Monuments Historiques

par arrêté du 2 mai 2006. Les objets l'ont été par arrêté du 1er janvier 1982.

La liste ci-dessous reprend les notices des arrêtés de protection.

Vous pourrez trouver des descriptifs plus détaillés sur les pages de notre guide de visite pour mobile.

Inventory of the Open Heritage Platform
Source: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/PA62000067

  • Interior decor: paving tiles

 

Description: stained glass

 

eras: 12th century – 19th century​

  • Altar(high altar)

 

Description:

Materials and techniques of intervention: carved black marble, carved wood

Black veined marble step, decorated with a mosaic, black marble altar decorated with twisted columns and seven carved wooden statuettes

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Creators: altar from the second half of the 17th century and Abbé Lecoutre for the statuettes

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eras: second half of the 17th century – 19th century

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  • Communion pew (choir fence) ( Object MH 6 I 1982 )

 

Description: oak bench carved with plant motifs

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Creators: bench dating from the second half of the 17th century, Abbé Lecoutre for the parts closing the side chapels 

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eras: second half of the 17th century – 19th century

  • Eight stalls( Object MH 6 I 1982 )

 

Description: two rows of four oak stalls, 

Length: 280 - Depth: 115 for each stall

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Creator 

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Era: 1860

  • Statue of a holy bishop ( Object MH 6 I 1982 )

 

Description: wooden statue, hollowed out on the reverse and covered with plaster

Height: 94 

The butt volute is missing

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Creator: 16th century statue remodeled by Abbé Lecoutre in the 19th century

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Era: 16th century – 19th century

  • Statue of the Virgin and Child( Object MH 6 I 1982 )

 

Description: carved and painted wooden statue (polychrome wood)

Height: 57 - Width: 24 with base

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Creator 

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Era: first half of the 19th century

  • Statue of Christ on the cross( Object MH 6 I 1982 )

 

Description: Carved and painted wooden statue (polychrome wood)

Height: approximately 140 - Width: approximately 110

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Creator 

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Era: 1855

  • Bell( Object MH 6 I 1982 )

 

Description: Cast bronze bell

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Creator: Drouot bell founder

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Era: 1843

  • Two decorative vases( Object MH 6 I 1982 )

 

Description: two ceramic vases painted with characters, arches and flowers

Height: 17 – D: 12

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Creator 

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Era: Nineteenth century

  • Two tombstones( Object MH 6 I 1982 )

 

Description: Funerary slabs in black marble engraved with Marie Clémente Jeanne VAULTIER DE MOYENCOURT, who died on March 30, 1860 and René François DE FISSET, who died on April 25, 1841

Epitaph

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Creator 

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Era: 1841 and 1860

  • six altars  ( Object MH 6 I 1982 )

 

Description: Six altars in polychrome marble and carved stone

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Creator: Abbé Lecoutre, between 1862 and 1906

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Era: Nineteenth century

  • Pulpit to preach( Temptation of Adam and Eve ) ( Object MH 6 I 1982 )

 

Description: The cantilevered pulpit tank, leaning against a pillar of the nave, is supported by a pillar in the shape of a tree, at the foot of which stand Adam and Eve

Marble and carved stone

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Creator: Father Lecoutre 

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Era: Nineteenth century

  • Confessional( Object MH 6 I 1982 )

 

Description: Confessional in painted freestone, decorated with statuettes, the door is in carved wood

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Creator: Abbé Lecoutre, between 1862 and 1906

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Era: Nineteenth century

  • door drum( Object MH 6 I 1982 )

 

Description: the drum door is carved and varnished wood, it is decorated with bas-reliefs representing the apostle Saint Peter, Saint Paul of Tarsus andthe Annunciation.

Height: 300 - Width: 152 - Depth: 96

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Creator: Abbé Lecoutre, between 1862 and 1906

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Era: Nineteenth century

  • way of the cross( Object MH 6 I 1982 )

 

Description: Stations of the cross in polychrome painted carved stone

Height: 105 – Width: 58

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Creator: Abbé Lecoutre, between 1862 and 1906

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Era: Nineteenth century

  • Forty-three statues( Object MH 6 I 1982 )

 

Description: Statues of different sizes in polychrome painted carved stone

Height: 50-70

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Creator: Abbé Lecoutre, between 1862 and 1906

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Era: Nineteenth century

  • Twelve exterior statues: the Apostles ( Object MH 6 I 1982 )

 

Description: Carved stone statues 

Height: 80 (approximately)

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Creator: Abbé Lecoutre, between 1862 and 1906

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Era: Nineteenth century

  • Baptismal font( Object MH 6 I 1982 )

 

Description: The tank with cut sides on a curved barrel is closed by a bulbous lid.

Black and white veined marble cut

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Creator: Abbé Lecoutre, between 1862 and 1906 

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Era: Nineteenth century

  • Twenty-three canopies( Object MH 6 I 1982 )

 

Description: Stained glass windows depicting scenes from the Old and New Testaments, the lives of Saint Anne and Saint Quentin

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Creator: An inscription gives the date of creation: 1882

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Era: Nineteenth century

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Mairie de Wirwignes

8, Rue de Cremarest

62240 WIRWIGNES

 

amis.eglise.wirwignes@gmail.com

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