Montmorillon

INFORMATION

FontID: 03626MON
Church/Chapel: Baptistery? [in the old Maison-Dieu]
Church Location: Site de la Maison-Dieu, 86500 Montmorillon, France
Country Name: France
Location: Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Montmorillon is in the Brandes region, about 50 km SE of Poitiers.
Corblet (1881-1882) reports that "M. Ernest Breton considère comme un baptistère du IXe siècle l'octogone de Montmorillon", but Corblet himself leans towards the more shared opinion among "la plupart des archéologues" that it is nothing more than a funerary chapel. (Corblet, 1881-1882, v. 2, p. 68). The building discussed appears to be either the one identified in another source as "a funerary chapel in the courtyard of the old Maison-Dieu" which the guide dates to the 12th century, or another building in the same location, an octagonal building which the guide describes as "another 17C octagonal edifice which was probably a calefactory". (France: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, 1985, p. 400-401)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.421583, 0.864066
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 25′ 17.7″ N, 0° 51′ 50.64″ E
UTM: 31T 335872 5143107

REFERENCES

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