the stone stoup or font placed near the entrance of a church, as a receptacle for holy water.

See also: Holy

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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A report on notable acquisitions by the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, published in APOLLO in October 2007, singled out a gilt-bronze statuette of St John the Baptist, claiming it to be by Michelozzo, and to be the central figure from the holy-water stoup in SS Annunziata, Florence.

Crying in the wilderness: a bronze 'St John the Baptist' from the circle of Piero the Gouty De'Medici: in the 1450s Lorenzo the Magnificent's father commissioned a bronze statuette of St John the Baptist for a holy-water stoup in SS Annunziata, Florence. Charles Avery presents new evidence that this lost work has survived unidentified in the Bargello

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Holy-water stoup