Amiens No. 2

INFORMATION

FontID: 03583AMI
Object Type: Baptistery
Church/Chapel: Baptistery [disappeared]
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates given for the reported original site]
Country Name: France
Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Believed to have occupied the present site of Saint-Acheul's, in the E outskirts of Amiens
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Amiens
Century and Period: Early Christian
Font Notes:
Reported in Corblet (1881-1882) as an "antique monument, aujoud'hui disparu et qui, au XVIIIe siècle, servait encore d'église paroissiale à La Neuville-lez-Amiens". The now disappeared building is believed to have been the baptistery for the cathedral and to have been situated at the present site of St-Acheul's.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.883797, 2.324133
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 53′ 1.67″ N, 2° 19′ 26.88″ E
UTM: 31U 451446 5525930

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: unknown

REFERENCES

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