A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1882)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 40
33 ante —Barbican* 30 Also the moulding, or suite of mouldings which encircles the pillars and small shafts in Gothic … Baptistery, sometimes a separate Band of & shaft, wMtby Abbey, building; sometimes the part of a church in which baptism was performed by immersion. Bap- tisteries are frequently found in Italy, and rare cases oc- cur in Erance and Germany. The name is also applied occasionally to the enclosure…
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