LE-PUY-EN-VELAY – Cloister of the cathedral (11th–12th centuries), restored in the 19th century.
the baptistery; the cruciform basin was accessed by means of steps arranged along three arms of the cross itself.
BIBL.: R. Bartoccini, La basilica cristiana di L., in Riv. di arch. crist., 8 (1931), p. 23 ff.; P. Romanelli, La basilica cristiana nell'Africa sett., in Atti del IV Congresso internazionale di arch. crist., I, Città del Vaticano 1940, pp. 264–70. Enrico Josi