Crossword clues for baptistry
baptistry
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Baptistery \Bap"tis*ter*y\,Baptistry \Bap"tis*try\, n.; pl. Baptisteries, Baptistries. [L. baptisterium, Gr. baptisth`rion: cf. F. baptist[`e]re.] (Arch.)
In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near.
A part of a church containing a font and used for baptismal services.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Christianity English) 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. 2 An indoor pool used for baptism by immersion.
WordNet
n. bowl for baptismal water [syn: baptismal font, baptistery, font]
Usage examples of "baptistry".
It had been a day full of obligations and endless ministerial duties, including a meeting with Larry Garber regarding his drawings of the sacristy, revised based on their telephone exchange, and a general review of the floor plan for the nave, the baptistry, and the choir.
Olivia nodded dumbly, though she grew more talkative when she saw the mosaic of Salome above the Baptistry, captivated by the extraordinary allure in the slender figure in the clinging dress.
Chapel or the baptistry, and there were signs of activity near the west door.
The altar, instead of being at the east end of the church where the apse was, had been placed at the end of the north transept and the apsed end was now a baptistry, complete with a late Victorian marble font on three stone steps.
They were all content with the flat bas-relief effects familiar to them in the gates of the Baptistry and the jewel-like decorations of the Campanile.
Soaring over the Duomo, the Baptistry, and the Piazza della Signoria, which rose from the streets like minarets around a heavenly dome .
These houses are clustered around the walls, now almost in ruins, of the mission itself, which had its chapel, refectory, and baptistry, and in all its details it resembled closely a parish church of Italy of Spain.
First, take me into the church, into the baptistry, and there baptize me Ashlar in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, as if it had never been done before.