Directory of Water Houses Resources

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Buildings intended primarily to contain and deliver water. These include aquaducts, baptisteries, conduits, lavoirs, fountains, public baths, spring-houses, step wells and well-heads. To be listed here a site should have a focus on the architecture of the structure, rather than its engineering or social value.

Subcategories

• Aqueducts
• Stepwells

Resources in This Category

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Baptistery

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02276b.htm
  The separate building in which the sacrament of baptism was once solemnly administered, or that portion of the church-edifice later set apart for the same purpose.

• LacusCurtius: Roman Fountains

  http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Fons.html
  Article from William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1875), illustrated with three woodcuts.

• The Early Christian Baptisteries of Rome

  http://spazioinwind.libero.it/lucina/baptist.htm
  The Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome provides an illustrated introduction to the type and its function, and information on the remains of a baptistery belonging to the church of San Lorenzo in Lucina.

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