History of mediæval art . Fig. 22.—Plan and Section of S. Constanza in Rome. porphyry, is part of the first construction, and so also is the baptis-mal font in the centre of this comparatively small edifice. Al-though baptisteries and mortuary chapels were generally built assimple cylindrical halls, without surrounding passages, other exam-ples of the two modes of extension above described are not lacking. 42 EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE. The Baptistery of S. Maria rotondo at Nocera near Naples is similarto the Church of S. Costanza, differing only in that its cupola is notelevat
History of mediæval art . Fig. 22.—Plan and Section of S. Constanza in Rome. porphyry, is part of the first construction, and so also is the baptis-mal font in the centre of this comparatively small edifice. Al-though baptisteries and mortuary chapels were generally built assimple cylindrical halls, without surrounding passages, other exam-ples of the two modes of extension above described are not lacking. 42 EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE. The Baptistery of S. Maria rotondo at Nocera near Naples is similarto the Church of S. Costanza, differing only in that its cupola is notelevated upon a wall, but springs directly from the archivolts, sothat the roof of the central space rises but little above the lowerlean-to roof. The principal church of Antioch is even more closelyrelated to the Baptistery of the Lateran. This octagonal structure
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