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wheel window - A round window with glazing bars radiating from the center ...

 


Wheel Window \ Rose Window
- a round window with a central point from which a form of spoke may radiate.
A rose window has intricate tracery which may appear as rose petals.

Wheel Window - Round window with mullions radiating from the center
Widow's Walk - Narrow platform on roof; usually with wooden or wrought-iron balustrade
Wing - Building part projecting from a central or main part ...

VS.Wheel window: window divided by simple spokes radiating from a central opening
VS.Oculus: circular window without tracery ...

With flights round a square open well framed by newel posts.Wheel house(Scots): Late Iron Age stone dwelling, round with partition walls like wheel spokes.Wheel windowA circular window with radiating shafts like spokes.

The basic structure of the cathedral church, the parish church, the monastery, the castle, the palace, the great hall and the gatehouse were all established. Ribbed vaults, buttresses, clustered columns, ambulatories, wheel windows, ...

See also: Gothic, Tracery, Door, Rose window, Decorated

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