Reims No. 1 / Durocortorum Remorum / Rheims

INFORMATION

FontID: 03533REI
Church/Chapel: Cathédrale Notre-Dame
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Pl. du Cardinal Luçon / 10 Rue Robert de Coucy, 51100 Reims, France
Country Name: France
Location: Marne, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located in the historic centre of Reims
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 5th - 6th century, Early Christian
Corblet (1881-1882) informs that until the time of the French Revolution there was a font with a four-shaft support, which was purported to have been the one in which Clovis, the Merovingian king, was baptised in 496 A.D. Corblet adds, however, that the information left about it proves that "il était loin de remonter à une date si reculée" (Corblet, 1881-1882, v. 2, p. 131).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.25386, 4.03403
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 15′ 13.9″ N, 4° 2′ 2.51″ E
UTM: 31U 575246 5456191

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, unknown

REFERENCES

Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882