Angers No. 2

Corblet (1881-1882) informs that, towards the end of 1878, during road works at the place du Ralliement, near the site of the old church of St-Maurille, the ruins of an ancient baptistery, about 5 m. in diameter, were unearthed. Corblet quotes the description done for the Bulletin monumental , 1879, p. 104, by M[onsieur]. G. d'Espinay, which identified the buiding as an octagonal structure made of a tufaceous stone, with an entrance probably on the north side and three descending steps into the interior, which had a concrete floor. These steps were removed and a further set of previous steps covered in red cement was found, but extended excavation of the area failed to turn up anything else of consequence. There appear to have been a rectangular compartment, off one of the walls of the octagon, which would have attached the baptistery to the church of St-Maurille (description and plan on Corblet, 1881-1882, v. 2, p. 51-52)