Therouanne / Tarwanna / Terenburg / Terwaan / Thérouanne

INFORMATION

Font ID: 21331THE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 8th - 11th century, Carolingian? / Romanesque?
Church / Chapel Name: Cathedral Church [destroyed mid-16thC]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Address: 62129 Thérouanne, France
Site Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D157-D341 crossroads, 10 km W of Aire-sur-la-Lys, 14 km S of Saint-Omer
Ecclesiastic Region: [earlier in the Diocèse de Thérouanne
Historical Region: Pays de Saint-Omer
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Carolingian or early-Romanesque cathedral here destroyed in mid-16thC) -- the fonts of two other churches here, also disappeared, are also missing
Font Notes:
[NB: we have no in formation on the baptismal font of the Carolingian -or early-Romanesque- cathedral here; the early period of the cathedral is studied in Honoré Bernard's 'Les états carolingiens de la cathédrale de Thérouanne (Pas-de-Calais)', in Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Année 1976 Volume 120 Numéro 3 pp. 362-370 [www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_1976_num_120_3_13263] [accessed 16 July 2017]. For the study of the 13th-century cathedral here see Camille Enlart's 'Fouilles de la cathédrale de Thérouanne', in Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Année 1899 Volume 43 Numéro 6 pp. 622-623 [www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_1899_num_43_6_71492] [accessed 16 July 2017]. The baptismal font from the 13th-century cathedral is said to be in the parish church at Inghem [cf. BSI entry for Inghem]].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 447650 5609776