Paris No. 17 / Lutetia Parisiorum
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the minimalist modern font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 February 2017 by Guilhem Vellut [www.flickr.com/photos/o_0/32579668122/] [accessed 13 May 2017]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The church Saint-Médard, at the corner rue Censier/rue Mouffetard in Paris
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © LPLT, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2012 by LPLT [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Médard.JPG] [accessed 13 May 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Guilhem Vellut, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 February 2017 by Guilhem Vellut [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Saint-Médard_@_Paris_(32579612032).jpg] [accessed 13 May 2017]
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view of church interior - plan
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mbzt, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2016 by Mbzt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F0682_Paris_V_eglise_St-Medard_plan_rwk.jpg] [accessed 13 May 2017]
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view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Guilhem Vellut, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 February 2017 by Guilhem Vellut [www.flickr.com/photos/o_0/32692861236/] [accessed 13 May 2017]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13651PAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Médard
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Medard [aka Medardus]
Church Notes: original Merovingian cemetery discovered here and a church may have been destroyed in the Viking raids; 9thC chapel dedicated to St. Medard; parish church here known by 1163; present 15thC church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00088417]
Church Address: 39-41 rue Daubenton, 75005 Paris, France -- Tel.: +33 1 44 08 87 00
Site Location: Ville de Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located just N of the rue Mouffetard (W) and rue Monge (E) crossroads, N of Les Gobelins (Paris V)
Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiocèse métropolitain de Paris
Historical Region: Faubourg Saint-Marceau [until the Revolution]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 15thC church here, and perhaps of the earlier 9th and 12thC churches here)
Font Notes:
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The present font in this church is modern, a minimalist affair consisting of a plain round basin of brass mounted on a tube metal base; it is located in the baptistery, in a northwest corner chapel [NB: we have no information on the font of the late-medieval church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 452326 5409858
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.839861, 2.350278
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 50′ 23.5″ N, 2° 21′ 1″ E