Fanlight

Fanlight

A fanlight is a window, semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan, [cite book
last =Poppeliers et al.
first =John C.
coauthors =
url =
title =What Style is it?
publisher =John Wiley and Sons
date =1983
location =NY
pages = p. 100
doi =
id =
isbn = 0-471-14434-7] It is placed over another window or a doorway. [cite book
first=Francis D.K.
last= Ching
year= 1995
title= A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
edition=
publisher=John Wiley and Sons
location=New York
pages= p. 63
id= ISBN 0-471-82451-3] [cite web
url=http://ah.bfn.org/a/DCTNRY/f/fanlight.html
title=Fanlight
publisher=Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
accessdate=2008-01-16] and is sometimes hinged to a transom. The bars in the fixed glazed window spread out in the manner a sunburst. It is also called a "sunburst light". [cite web
url=http://www.ushistory.org/carpentershall/games/carpenter/fanlight.htm
title=Fanlight, Pilaster
publisher=ushistory.org
accessdate=2008-01-16]

A chiefly British use of the word is to mean "transom". [cite web
author=
year=
url=http://www.bartleby.com/61/18/F0031800.html
title=fanlight
publisher=Bartleby.com
accessdate=2008-01-18]

ee also

*Lunette

Footnotes

External links

* [http://doorwaysaroundtheworld.wordpress.com/category/fanlight/ Doorways around the World]


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