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Location

  • France, Poitiers
  • geo:46.57946,0.348511

Period or year

  • 350 / unknown

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Identifiers

Baptistery of St. John, Poitiers

data access 37259

The St. John Baptistery of Poitiers was built ca 350 AD atop the substructures of Roman buildings that were demolished in 276 AD. Inside a rectangular room, surrounded by several annexes, was  octagonal pool with three steps.

See:

  1. Andre Grabar, L'Âge d'or de Justinien, de la mort de Théodose à l'Islam, Paris 1966
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist%C3%A8re_Saint-Jean

Nearby sites

  • Musée Sainte-Croix
    Musée Sainte-Croix
    France, Poitiers
  • Milestone Poitiers (CIL 17-02, no. 385)
    Milestone Poitiers (CIL 17-02, no. 385), see http://oracle-vm.ku-eichstaett.de:8888/epigr/epieinzel_en?p_belegstelle=CIL+17-02,+00385. Data from http://francia.ahlfeldt.se/
    France, Poitiers
  • Milestone Poitiers (CIL 17-02, no. 436)
    Milestone Poitiers (CIL 17-02, no. 436), see http://oracle-vm.ku-eichstaett.de:8888/epigr/epieinzel_en?p_belegstelle=CIL+17-02,+00436. Data from http://francia.ahlfeldt.se/
    France, Poitiers
  • Limonum
    OmnesViae import TPPlace693
    France, Poitiers

Use and reuse

Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2017-02-24) , last updated by Mathieu (2018-11-25), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/37259
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta and Mathieu, Baptistery of St. John, Poitiers. https://vici.org/vici/37259, accessed 2026-11-12.