Teil-d'Ardeche / Teil-d'Ardèche

INFORMATION

FontID: 04038TEI
Object Type: Baptistery
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Étienne
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Country Name: France
Location: Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Directions to Site: Located 5 kms W of Montélimar
Font Location in Church: Built against the left side of the church
Century and Period: 5th - 11th century, Early Christian
Church Notes: The church itself has an early part dating to the 11th century (Dictionnaire... 1966-, II C 159-160); tradition has it that the baptistery and the church itself would go back originally to the Vandal invasions of the 5th century.
Font Notes:
The Dictionnaire des églises.. (1966-) describes this octagonal building as being built against the left side of the église Saint-Étienne and dates it "certainement antérieur au XIe s."

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-