Baptistery

Baptistery

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The Baptistery is carefully built with hewn stones in successive layers (Bakirtzis, Zikos 1984, 15). Plaster was used as a binder and between the horizontal layers of the stones, at the joints, slabs were placed in order to provide a more solid structure. Externally, the octagon is a normal one with its side to be 2,40m. Internally, it deviates as its walls don’t have equal width. The entrance opens to the north aisle of the church and has a width of 1,27m. Three windows are opened on the eastern, northern and western side. On a later state, the entrance of the temple got walled and the western window turned into an inlet opening. This probably meant that the baptistery was not used any more.

Lets have a closer look,, in some architectural details which the building has. The Baptistery, is carefully built with hewn stones in successive layers. Plaster was used as a binder, and between the horizontal layers of the stones, at the joints, slabs were placed in order to provide a more solid structure. Externally, the octagon is a normal one with its side to be 2,40 metres. Internally, it deviates as its walls don’t have equal width. The entrance opens to the north aisle of the church and has a width of 1,27 mentres. Three windows are opened on the eastern, northern and western side. On a later state,, the entrance of the temple got walled, and the western window turned into an inlet opening. This probably meant that the baptistery, was not used any more.

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