Reims No. 2 / Durocortorum Remorum / Rheims
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10446REI
Object Type: Baptistery
Font Century and Period/Style: Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: [Early Christian church]
Church Address: Pl. du Cardinal Luçon, 51100 Reims, France -- Tel.: +33 3 26 47 55 34
Site Location: Marne, Grand Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: The cathedral is located in the old city centre, W of the D944 [aka Blvd de la Paix}
Font Notes:
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Described in 'Les premiers monuments...' (1995-1998) as a baptistery in the Early Christian Merovingian church, in which Clovis may have been baptised by Saint Remigius; it was excavated in the 1990s directly under the present cathedral.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 575256 5456195
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.253889, 4.034167
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 15′ 14″ N, 4° 2′ 3″ E
REFERENCES
- Les premiers monuments chrétiens de la France, Paris: A. Picard ; Ministère ce la culture et de la francophonie, Direction du patrimoine, Sous-direction de l'archéologue, 1995-1998, vol. 3: p. 105-111