Charleville-Mezieres No. 3 / Charleville-Mézières
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Scene Description: the Préfecture des Ardennes building -- the old font ended up in its gardens [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2007 by Szeder László [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FR-08-Charleville6.JPG] [accessed 25 December 2013]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18907CHA
Church/Chapel: [original church unknown]
Church Location: Préfecture des Ardennes, Esplanade du Palais de Justice, 08000 Charleville-Mézières, France
Phone:+33 3 24 59 66 00
Country Name: France
Location: Ardennes, Grand Est
Directions to Site: The Préfecture is located on the D979, just off (S) of the Pont d'Arches, near the Deptartmental Archives
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Reims-Ardennes
Historical Region: Cœur d'Ardenne
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font found during the German occupation of WWI in a garden in Grandpré; moved in 1925 to the courtyard of the Departmental Archives in Mézières, where it survived WWII; placed afterwards in the gardens of the Préfecture des Ardennes [source: Palissy [ref.: PM08000120]].
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UTM: 31U 623566 5514683