- The Spring House - http://waltonfeed.com/old/springhs.html
Al Durtschi describes the small, enclosed one room buildings used in the US before the days of refrigeration to keep food cool.
- The Conduit, Grantham - http://www.visitoruk.com/grantham/history/sites_conduit.htm
Photograph and brief description of the well head in the Market Place built in 1597 to supply fresh water to the town.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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