Mazan
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05469MAZ
Object Type: Baptistery
Font Century and Period/Style: Early Christian
Church Address: [NB: coordinates given for the town]
Site Location: Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D942, 7 km E of Carpentras, 34 km from Avignon, about 13 km N of Venasque
Font Notes:
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Listed in Bond (1908: 20) as one of several surviving Early-Christian baptisteries in the south of France [NB: Bond gives the "county" as the Ardèche, but Mazan is actually in the Vaucluse, just a few km north of Venasque, a well-known surviving baptistery]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 670788 4880460
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 44.057417, 5.13225
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 44° 3′ 26.7″ N, 5° 7′ 56.1″ E
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 20