lancet window - a narrow window having a lancet arch and without tracery
window - a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air
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Lancet window - A slender pointed-arched window, much used in the early c 13.
Lantern - A small circular or polygonal turret with windows all round, crowning a roof or dome.
Lancet window - Slender rectangular window with pointed arch.
Lintel - A beam of any material used to span an opening.
Lubin, St.: Bishop of Chartres in 558 AD ...
Lancet Window
A slender pointed-arched window.
Illustration from St. John's Grace Episcopal
Mosaic
A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.
Lancet window: A narrow window with sharp pointed arches. Starting with Amiens, lancets were often subdivided into two and topped by a smaller rose window. Prior to this, lancets were typically surmounted by an oculus or round opening (fig.
Lancet window - A Gothic pointed window.
Lantern - An upright structure on a roof or dome for letting in light and air or for decoration.
Latticework - An ornamental, lattice framework consisting of a criss-crossed pattern.
lancet window - a Gothic pointed window. (p. 18).
louvered - a window shutter or door fitted with slanting fixed or movable slats to admit air, but exclude rain, snow, or to provide privacy. (p. 22, p. 48).
Lancet window : A tall, narrow window which terminates in a pointed apex.
Lantern tower : An extended tower or watch house illuminated in its uppermost windows.
LANCET WINDOW
Sash with a pointed, arched top.
LATTICE WINDOW
Sash divided diagonally into diamond-shaped panes.
LANCET or LANCET WINDOW
A long, narrow window with a sharply pointed head.
LANCET ARCH
A pointed arch, of which the width, or span, is narrow compared with the height.
Aside from the lancet window and the scalloping, this building shows its Gothic favor through sheer verticality. The board and batten trim accentuates the vertical thrust of the walls.
Lancet windows (windows topped by pointed arches) were grouped in twos or threes under an enclosing arch, the remaining contained space being pierced with small circular openings.
The main points of Early English are: quadripartite ribbing in vaults, slender towers topped with spires, lancet windows - both single and grouped - and piers with narrow, clustered shafts.
York Cathedral has a group of lancet windows each fifty feet high and still containing ancient glass. They are known as the Five Sisters.
First phase of Gothic architecture dominant after Norman, characterised by the earliest pointed arches and simple lancet windows c1190-1250.
Estoile
A star, usually of six wavy points. Where there are more they are alternately straight and wavy.
A circular window composed of patterned tracery arranged in petal-like formation. Compare with lancet window.
rosin
Natural resin obtained from living pine trees or from dead tree stumps and knots.
The clerestory itself was now lighted in each bay or division by two very tall lancet windows surmounted by a rose window.
Features double lancet window in the gable and decorative vergeboards (trim) under the eaves.
31. New Bedford, MA. William J. Rotch House, c.1844.
Compare with lancet window. Rubble: Fill; unsquared stone not laid in courses. Rustication: Worked ashlar stone with the faces left rough.
S Salient: Wall projection, arrowhead. Saltire: Diagonal, equal-limbed cross.
 See also: Lancet, Gothic, Tower, Ceiling, House
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