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	Encyclopedia: Baptistery
		In Christian architecture the baptistery or baptistry (Latin baptisterium) is 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.
		During the months when there were no baptisms the baptistery doors were sealed with the bishop's seal, a method of controlling the orthodoxy of all baptism in the diocese.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Baptistery (3138 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Baptistery
		When separate baptisteries were no longer needed, the term was then applied to that part of the church which was set apart for an contained the baptismal font.
		The construction of the baptistery of the Lateran is interesting because of a direct adaptation of the columnar system of the basilica to a concentric plan.
		Although baptisteries and mortuary chapels were generally built as simple cylindrical halls, without surrounding passages, other examples of the two modes of extension are not lacking.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02276b.htm (1226 words)

	AllRefer.com - baptistery (Architecture) - Encyclopedia
		In the center of the chamber was the sunken pool, often surrounded by columns, with curtains to screen the neophyte during immersion.
		In Italy separate baptisteries continued to be built in the 12th to the 15th cent., notably the beautiful Romanesque structures at Florence, Pisa, Siena, and Parma.
		The baptistery at Florence contains the celebrated bronze doors of Andrea Pisano and of Lorenzo Ghiberti, that at Pisa the pulpit by Nicola Pisano.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/baptiste.html (313 words)

	baptistery on Encyclopedia.com
		BAPTISTERY [baptistery], part of a church, or a separate building in connection with it, used for administering baptism.
		In the earliest examples it was merely a basin or pool set into the floor.
		The medieval baptistery of Saint-Jean.Keywords:tree flora natural surroundings natureregion.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b1/baptiste.asp (465 words)

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