Amiens No. 2
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03583AMI
Object Type: Baptistery
Font Century and Period/Style: Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Baptistery [disappeared]
Church Address: [NB: address & coordinates given for the reported original site]
Site Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
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
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 31U 451446 5525930
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.883797, 2.324133
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 53′ 1.67″ N, 2° 19′ 26.88″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: unknown
REFERENCES
- Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882, vol. 2, p. 52