Cuissy / Cuissiacus Vienlus / Quissiacus

Font ID: 19026CUI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque

Church / Chapel Name: Ancienne abbaye de Cuissy à Cuissy-et-Geny [abandoned in the 18thC]

Font Location in Church: [disappeared]

Church Notes: abbey founded in 1118 in Cuissy; in 1122 joined the Premonstratensian order of canons regular which had just been founded; entirely rebuilt in 1746; dissolved in 1790 [source: Martine Plouvier. 'Histoire et architecture de l'Abbaye de Cuissy aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles', in Cahiers archéologiques de Picardie, 1976, vol. 3, no. 3 (191-216 )] -- 17th-18th portal listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00115647]

Church Address: 32 Cuissy-Nord 02160 Cuissy-et-Geny, France

Site Location: Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe

Directions to Site: Located in Cuissy-et-Geny, near Laon

Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocèse de Laon]

Historical Region: Le Laonnois

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church of the Premonstratensian abbey here)

Font Notes: Click to view

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.403056, 3.714722

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 24′ 11″ N, 3° 42′ 53″ E