Buildings intended primarily to contain and deliver water. These include aquaducts, baptisteries, conduits, lavoirs, fountains, public baths, spring-houses, step wells and well-heads. To be listed here a site should have a focus on the architecture of the structure, rather than its engineering or social value. Aqueducts@ (13) Stepwells@ (6) 1. Catholic Encyclopedia: Baptistery - 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. 2. Fountains, Springs and Lavoirs in Southern France - Bob Drake's overview and annotated photographs of historic local fountains and communal washing-places. 3. LacusCurtius: Roman Fountains - Article from William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1875), illustrated with three woodcuts. 4. National Wells Index - Aims to catalogue, research and preserve the surviving holy wells of Britain. Includes an outline history of hydromancy and gallery of holy wells. 5. The Conduit, Grantham - Photograph and brief description of the well head in the Market Place built in 1597 to supply fresh water to the town. 6. The Early Christian Baptisteries of Rome - 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. 7. The Spring House - Al Durtschi describes the small, enclosed one room buildings used in the US before the days of refrigeration to keep food cool.

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