Baptistery or Baptistry (Latin baptisterium) - The separate centrally-planned structure surrounding the baptismal font. The baptistery may be incorporated within the body of a church or cathedral and be provided with an altar as a chapel.
Baptistery - where the font was stored and baptisms were performed, generally near the west door. Sometimes a screen or grille separates the baptistery from the nave.
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A building or part of a church used for baptisms.
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where the font was stored and baptisms were performed, generally near the west door. Sometimes a screen or grille separates the baptistery from the nave.
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Baptistery. Religious building of circular design where the baptismal font is housed. Usually built beside or in front of a church or cathedral.
Baptistery
a building, usually round or polygonal, used for Christian baptismal services.
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baptistery: A building or part of a church used for baptism. See also baptismal font ...
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A part of a church or a separate building, often octagonal or round, in which baptisms take place.
The Baptistery, which is a few years older than the Leaning Tower, is a stately rotunda, of huge dimensions, and was a costly structure.
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Building: Baptistery (San Giovanni)
Date: 10th - 11th centuries
Building: Cathedral (Duomo)
Architects: Arnolfo di Cambio, et al; Filippo Brunelleschi (dome)
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Costanza and the Baptistery of the Lateran, both in Rome, and one in the tomb of Galla Placidia at Ravenna (c. A.D. 450). From these we pass to the Sassanian domes at Serbistan and Firuzabad, of the 4th and 5th centuries respectively.
Baptistery In a Roman house, the household's water source was in the atrium just inside the front door.
They include many very well-known churches such as Santa Maria in Cosmedin in Rome,[6] the Baptistery in Florence[7] and San Zeno Maggiore in Verona.
BaptisteryDivision of a church designed to house the font; also a separate building for the same purpose.BarbicanOutwork defending the entrance to a castle.
Horseshoe arches were developed in Syria in pre-Islamic times and have been recorded as early as the fourth century CE in the Baptistery of Mar Ya'qub at Nisibin.
Lorenzo Ghiberti is best known for the reliefs he made for two sets of gilded bronze doors, produced for the Florence Baptistery.
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