Example sentences for: baptistery

How can you use “baptistery” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Take an excursion east to the quiet medieval town of Albenga, with its Romanesque-Gothic houses around the 11th- to 14th-century cathedral and early Christian (fifth-century) baptistery.

  • Pisa sided with the Normans in Sicily and profits from its new commercial empire in the western Mediterranean paid for its magnificent cathedral, baptistery, and campanile (today’s Leaning Tower).

  • The Piazza del Duomo forms a harmonious space for the graceful octagonal baptistery, begun in 1196, and the austere nobility of the 12th-century Romanesque cathedral and its 13th-century campanile.

  • The lovely circular Baptistery (Battistero) is topped by a traditional statue of John the Baptist.

  • At the end of the right nave is the fifth-century domed baptistery, one of the oldest buildings known in Christian Europe with some original mosaics still intact.


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