10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHEEL WINDOW»
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wheel window in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
wheel window and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Dictionary of Architecture and Building Construction
109 WHEEL AND ROSE WINDOWS STYLES OF ROUND WINDOW 1 wheel
window, Catherine wheel window (Norman style, Anglo-Norman style) 2 wheel
window, Catherine wheel window (Norman style, Anglo-Norman style) 3 wheel ...
Nikolas Davies, Erkki Jokiniemi, 2008
2
The Continuum Encyclopedia of Symbols
Wheel of Fire - A symbol for LIGHT- Wheel Window - A round window hav-
SYMBOL V V r & Christian interpretation: God as the. WHALE: Jonah climbing out
of the jaws of the whale; from an illustration in Speculum humanae salvationis,
15th ...
3
An Essay on the Origin and Development of
Window Tracery in ...
Now the wheel-window has a quite distinct origin and development from those of
the common form, and will consequently meet with a separate consideration. I
shall therefore now only briefly refer to a few examples of this kind, without some
...
Edward Augustus Freeman, 1851
... of a wall. Also, the interior space used to enclose paneled interior SHUTTERS
that fold back when open. ROSE WINDOW — A round window with TRACERY.
see also wheel window and oculus ROUND-HEAD WINDOW — A window with ...
5
Architect's Illustrated Pocket Dictionary
... *bottom-hung casement win- dow; *bow window; *casement window; *
Catherine wheel window; *clerestory win- *vertical pivot window; *vertical sliding
window, see sash window; *wheel window, see Catherine wheel window.
window head ...
Nikolas Davies, Erkki Jokiniemi, 2011
6
Manual of Gothic construction
Those crescent surfaces above are then 0n the transepts of the cathedral of
Amieus therefore made higher, so that also the side arch is a stilted semicircle,
and hence the horizontal diameter of the concentric wheel window is raised by
the ...
Georg G. Ungewitter, N. Clifford Ricker
Wheel Window Round windows with mullions radiating from the center, as in the
spokes of a wheel. Also called Catherine- wheel. Those with tracery are
generally known as Rose Windows, while the round window without tracery or
mullions ...
8
The Allegory of the Church: Romanesque Portals and Their ...
... a wheel of fortune._]ohn Leyerle points out that all rose windows have this
aspect —- that is, they may be seen as wheels of fortune rather than as roses (
and, indeed, the term used to describe them was typically rota) .17 The wheel
window ...
9
Crusader Archaeology: The Material Culture of the Latin East
In the Tariq Bab al-Silsila in Jerusalem there is a drinking fountain called the
Sabil of Suleiman which contains, amongst other spolia, part of a finely carved
wheel window with diminutive columns, round arches and at its centre a deeply
carved ...
10
Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture
wheel tracery Tracery radiating from a center, as the spokes of a wheel. winding
stair wheel window A large circular window on which the radiation of traceryfrom
the center is suggested; a variety of rose window;aCatherine wheel window.
