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Baptistry
Baptistry meaning
A designated space within a church, or a separate room or building associated with a church, where a baptismal font is located, and consequently, where the sacrament of Christian baptism (via aspersion or affusion) is performed. | An indoor pool used for baptism by immersion.
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Flanked by the Baptistry and Giotto’s Campanile, the Duomo is the crown jewel in what is arguably the finest public composition of Gothic/Renaissance architecture in the world.
Giovanni Fanelli, (1980) Brunelleschi, Becocci Firenze, pp. 3–10 The sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti had laboured for fifty years to create the bronze doors of the Baptistry, which Michelangelo was to describe as "The Gates of Paradise".
It may have been inspired by the former Romanesque baptistry of the former cathedral in Bunić Square.
The baptistry at the west end contains a carved stone font with a carved oak cover.
There is often a free-standing tower and baptistry.