The Textbook of Architecture

The Cabinet of Models

A centralised building

Baptistery, martyrium or mausoleum: a round or polygonal core lit above an ambulatory, under a dome or a tent roof.

A centralised building Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Early Christian · Byzantine

The rules it illustrates

Eight sides for the baptistery. Build the baptistery, and its font, with eight sides, because the eighth day, the day of the resurrection, is the day into which the baptised are born.