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Scene Description: Source caption: "Hôtel de ville de Doullens (extérieur)" -- the present city hall was built on the site of the demolished medieval abbey
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux de l'abbaye Saint-Michel de Doullens (XIIe siècle), conservés au Musée Lombart de Doullens."
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FontID: 24246DUL
Museum and Inventory Number: Musée Lombart de Doullens
Church/Chapel: Abbaye Saint-Michel de Doullens
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates for the abbey site]80600 Doullens, France
Country Name: France
Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: The site of the abbey is located at the confluence of local roads D916, D126, D938 and the N25, 35-40 WSW of Arras, 30-35 km NNE of Amiens
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Amiens
Historical Region: Picardie
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and his help in documenting it
Church Notes: Benedctine abbey founded by 1104, documented 1138 and 1156; suppressed by the Revolution in 1791; demolished 1876-1896
Noted and illustrated in Richesses en Somme [https://www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-bapt-du-10e-au-13e-siècle/] [accessed 26 August 2022]: " DOULLENS- Au Musée. Ces fonts du 12° siècle proviennent de l'abbaye Saint-Michel et c'est le seul mobilier qui reste de cette ancienne abbaye, détruite pour construire l'Hôtel de Ville actuel, en 1896."
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 13 June 2022) notes: "The foundation of the museum was the handing over to the city of a private collection by Jules François Lombart (1830-1915) - the owner of the first and then the largest chocolate factory in France. In addition to paintings and sculptures from the 18th-20th centuries, the collection includes the 11th-century Romanesque baptismal font and Egyptian antiquities from before 3.5 thousand years. Fonts baptismaux de l'abbaye Saint-Michel de Doullens (XIIe siècle), conservés au Musée Lombart de Doullens." The object now in the museum [cf. supra] is much battered and damaged, missing coniderable parts of the stone; only a little of
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.1575,
2.341389
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 9′ 27″ N,
2° 20′ 29″ E
UTM: 31U 452954 5556350
