Grado No. 2 / Gradež / Grau / Gravo

INFORMATION

FontID: 02472GRA

Object Type: Baptistery

Church/Chapel: Basilica della Corte? / Associated with the church in Piazza Vittoria

Church Location: Piazza della Vittoria / Piazza della Corte, 34073 Grado GO, Italy -- Tel.: +39 0431 877111

Country Name: Italy

Location: Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Century and Period: 4th - 6th century, Early Christian

Font Notes: Click to view

The second of two early Christian baptisteries in Grado. The source (Bowersock, 1999) associates it to the church on Piazza Vittoria and dates it to the 5th-6th century. The recunstructed sunken piscina is octagonal and appears covered in marble stones (Arte in Friuli, 1999). [NB: these remains may be the ones located under the Town Hall, a palaeo-Christian basilica in Piazza Vittoria]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.67558056, 13.3858644

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Font Shape: Octagonal building

REFERENCES

Arte in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Udine: Magnus, 1999

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962