Baptistère de Portbail

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The Baptistery of Portbail is a paleo-Christian Baptistery dating from the 4th or 5th century, the remains of which stand in the former French commune of Portbail, in the Manche department in Normandy. The building is classified as historical monuments.

Location: The vestiges of the Baptistery are located at the so-called site of the closed Michel, not far from the Collège André-Miclot, on the ground-full behind the town hall of Portbail, within the new commune of Port-Bail-sur-Mer, in the French department of the Manche.

At the time of its construction some 15 metres west of the fanum, whose remains of the foundations were discovered in 1999 during excavations supervised by François Caligny Delahaye, the latter was still in elevation. The route of the water drain canal of the baptismal pool has been changed to follow the south wall of the sanctuary gallery. This set gave way in the second half of the seventh century to a cemetery where many limestone sarcophagi were discovered and in the middle of it a funeral chapel under the name of Saint Michael, the "peaser of souls". The chapel is destroyed after...