page_title: Bitonto Cathedral
section_title: Structure
hierarchical_section_title: Bitonto Cathedral / Structure
caption_attribution_description: Cattedrale di Bitonto
context_page_description: Bitonto Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of Bitonto in the Province of Bari, Italy.
context_section_description: The remains of a palaeochristian church, which predates by some centuries the establishment of the bishopric, have been discovered underneath the present building.
  The existing church however is a Romanesque building of the late 11th-12th centuries, influenced by the Basilica of San Nicola in Bari. The west front is divided into three parts and has three portals (the central one of which is sculpted with plant motifs and scenes from the Old Testament), four mullioned windows and a rose window flanked by sculptures of animals supported by small columns. The interior has a nave and two aisles, and is also notable for its sculpture. The main artwork is the marble ambo, a combined pulpit and lectern, of 1229, a masterpiece of medieval Apulian stonecarving. In the crypt is a tile of a griffin, a survival from the predecessor church building.
caption: Ambo
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