Viviers

INFORMATION

FontID: 03647VIV

Object Type: Baptistery

Church/Chapel: Baptistery [disappeared]

Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates given for the cathedral] Pl. Saint-Jean, 07220 Viviers, France

Country Name: France

Location: Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Directions to Site: Viviers is about 15 km S of Montélimar. The cathedral complex is located off (E) the D86 [aka Fbg la Ciré]

Century and Period: 6th century, Early Christian

Church Notes: Another disppeared baptistery is listed at Mélas, east of Montélimar, only 11 kms north of Viviers.

Font Notes: Click to view

Corblet informs that Saint-Venance († 540 A.D.) filled the baptistery of St. Julian through the mouth of a bronze deer "alimentatit son baptistère de Saint-Julien par la bouche d'un cerf d'airain". (Corblet, 1881-1882, v. 2, p. 75)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.481944, 4.690556

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 28′ 55″ N, 4° 41′ 26″ E

UTM: 31T 634437 4926794

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: unknown

Drainage Notes: [cf. Notes on Font re: bronze deer mouth]

REFERENCES

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