Baptismal font
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A baptismal font is an ecclesiastical architectural element, which serves as a receptacle for baptismal water used for baptism, as a part of Christian initiation for both rites of infant and adult bap
A Romanesque baptismal font from Grötlingbo Church, Sweden, carved by Sigraf, a master stone sculptor who specialised in baptismal fonts.
A baptismal font in Saint Stefan Dečanski Serbian Orthodox Church in Gothenburg, Sweden.
A modern baptismal font in the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston, constructed in 2008
Detail of carved baptismal font cover (created 1930s), Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania)
Baptistery
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In Christian architecture the baptistery or baptistry is the separate centrally planned structure surrounding the baptismal font. The baptistery may be incorporated within the body of a church or cath
Baptismal font
…In many churches of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, there was a special chapel or even a separate building for housing the baptismal fonts, called a baptistery. Both fonts and baptisteries were often octagonal (eight-sided), octagonal fonts becoming more common from the 13th century and the norm from the 14th…
Pisa Baptistery, begun 1152, completed 1363
The Lateran Baptistery, Rome, 440
Baptistery in the Basilica of St. John in Ephesus, Turkey
The 5th-century baptistery of Albenga in Italy