Tours No. 2

INFORMATION

FontID: 03641TOU
Church/Chapel: Baptistery (other than St-Jean's) [disappeared]
Country Name: France
Location: Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire
Directions to Site: [site not located]
Though not included in Corblet (1881-1882) [cf. Index entry for Tours No,. 1], who claims to use the same source, the Oxford Dictionary of Saints states that "Gregory built also built a new baptistery and enriched this, the old baptistery", thus reporting the existence of a second baptistery -an older one, perhaps already in existence prior to his arrival in 573 A.D.- in Tours mentioned in Gregory's Historia Francorum but not mentioned by Corblet (Farmer, 1987, p. 195). It is not clear whether or not this is the one refered to in Bourassé (1869, p. 56) when a mention is made of a well or a fountain whose waters were used for baptism and in the Mass.

REFERENCES

Bourassé, J-J, abbé, Recherches historiques et archéologiques sur les églises romaines en Touraine du VIe au XI siècle, Tours: Imprimerie Ladevèze, 1869
Farmer, David Hugh, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987