Amiens No. 6
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view of church exterior - west portal
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 February 2012 by HaguardDuNord [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amiens,_Eglise_Saint-Leu_(portail).JPG] [accessed 1 May 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 February 2012 by HaguardDuNord [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amiens,_Eglise_Saint-Leu_(3).JPG] [accessed 1 May 2016]
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view of church exterior in context - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raimond Spekking, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 December 2014 by Raimond Spekking [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Leu,_Amiens-3399.jpg] [accessed 1 May 2016]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest end
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Image Source: héliogravure by P. Dujardin in Brutails (1893-1899), vol. 3
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20524AMI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Leu d'Amiens [aka Sant-Leu]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): [St. Leo the Great?]
Church Notes: mid-15thC church, expanded late-15thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00116053]
Church Address: Rue St Leu, 80000 Amiens, France -- Tel.: +33 3 22 91 72 08
Site Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the city centre of Amiens, in the quarter and street of the same name as the church, N of the cathedral
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Amiens
Historical Region: Picardie
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original mid-15thC church here)
Font Notes:
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A baptismal font of red marble and totally devoid of artistic worth is noted in Brutails (1893-1899) [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font of the original mid-15th century church here]
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.897639, 2.30111
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 53′ 51.5″ N, 2° 18′ 4″ E
REFERENCES
- Brutails, Jean-Auguste, La Picardie historique et monumentale, Amiens: Société des antiquaires de Picardie. Fondation Edmond Soyez / Imprimerie Yvert et Tellier, 1893-1899, vol. 3: 169 fn1