Besancon / Besançon

INFORMATION

FontID: 03591DOU
Object Type: Baptistery
Church/Chapel: Baptistery [disappeared]
Church Location: [NB: directions & coordinates given for the cathedral] 10 Rue de la Convention, 25000 Besançon, France
Country Name: France
Location: Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Directions to Site: only vestiges of the ancienne église Saint-Jean-Baptiste that replaced the baptistery remain in the cathedral complx
Century and Period: 3rd century (?), Early Christian
Font Notes:
Corblet informs that in the 3rd century the saint bishop Lin built a baptistery in a house given to him by the military tribune Onnasius. This building, enlarged by the bishop St-Maximien, became later, under the advocation of St. John the Baptist, the first parish church in town. (Corblet, 1881-1882, v. 2, p. 60)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.233864, 6.030613
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 14′ 1.91″ N, 6° 1′ 50.21″ E
UTM: 32T 275245 5235431

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: unknown

REFERENCES

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