Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco), b. 1871, McManus, Blanche · London : Brimley Johnson & Ince · leaf 93
great as would mark them for dis-tinction were they hung in any of the leadingpicture galleries of Europe. At Essen the baptistery is separated fromthe main church, like that at Ravenna, or atAix-en-Provence, the two foremost examplesof their kind. A little to the westward ofthis minster, and… … Sooner or later the custom became preva-.lent of erecting a baptismal font within theprecincts of the main church itself, thus do-ing away with a structure especially devoted 66 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine to the purpose. This change came in theninth century, hence no separate…
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