Therouanne / Tarwanna / Terenburg / Terwaan / Thérouanne

INFORMATION

FontID: 21331THE
Church/Chapel: Cathedral Church [destroyed mid-16thC]
Church Location: 62129 Thérouanne, France
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
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
Century and Period: 8th - 11th century, Carolingian? / Romanesque?
[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. Ibdex entry for Inghem]].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 447650 5609776