Literature and the Arts

What churches made use of the wheel window?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/churches-made-use-wheel-window-96031.html" >What churches made use of the wheel window?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

Romanesque churches of both England and the Continent had made use of the wheel window—a circular window ornamented by shafts radiating from a small center circle; and from this prototype developed the elaborate rose windows.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about rose window . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: What groups of people used the wheel window? Who used the wheel window? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

Take a cruise on wheels through New England's fall finery.(Going Places)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) ...fall and outside the windows of our train, the...at the front, we use the same bus all...only emptied once so use it as a last resort...a cruise ship on wheels, sampling this and...turned loose she made individual suggestions...scenery filled with church steeples poking through...
70 YEARS LATER, THE SOUNDS AND SCENES OF CHURCH STREET LIVE ON.(COMMENTARY)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot ...short distance to Church Street. Church...that Mama would use when Tante Faigie...fat Santa in the window of the national...trees in all the windows on Granby Street...And once he made a banjo out of...picture in the bank window. When I think back now to Church Street, ...
Tiny village in memory of daughter; Countryside scoured for ideas.(News)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) ...complete with church, shops and a...constructing the windows mirroring those...18th century church - between Dundrum...said Paul. He made the wheel from an old projection...times, and then use 12-volt bulbs...Paul with his church based on; an...
History of firefighting in Redlands
Newspaper article from: Redlands Daily Facts ...hydrants (we still use the name fireplug...gunshots were made in those days...stained-glass window that was subsequently...with solid rubber wheels which Frazier...United Methodist Church and the First Presbyterian Church the same night. The Methodist Church was so damaged...
Stained glass regains popularity, seller says
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ...beveled-glass windows north of this...refurbished windows inside the...he makes a window. That same window that he made would take...had no water wheel to smooth out...doesn't make windows. Instead...he asked. "Churches, right...pieces, and uses them to ...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.