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Catherine-wheel window
Catherine wheel Cath"er*ine wheel` [So called from St. Catherine of Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her martyrdom.] 1. (Geoth.Arth.) Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window. 2. (Pyrotechny) A revolving piece of fireworks resembling in form the window of the same name. [Written also Catharine wheel.]

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- a rose window (or catherine window) is often used as a generic term applied to a the term “wheel window” is often applied to a window
- later romanesque churches may have wheel windows or rose window s with plate tracery . there are a very small number of buildings in the
- catherine wheel may refer to: catherine wheel or breaking wheel , an instrument catherine wheel (window), a type of spoked circular window
- ribbed vaults , buttresses, clustered columns, ambulatories, wheel windows , spires and richly carved door tympanums were already features
- it features 'a norman-wheel window in a building design in red and yellow brick, which combined neo-classical, romanesque, and italianate
- wheel windows, ocular windows and windows with simple quatrefoil tracery often occur in apses, as at worms cathedral. wooden roofs were
- simple windows with openings pierced through slabs of thin stone to wheel windows, as exemplified by the west front of chartres cathedral ,
- its romanesque wheel window and cemetery cross are remnants of the norman church. the village was served by sible and castle hedingham
- in the north window depicting the deposition , and in the east window the glass in the wheel window is decorated with a monogram and rays.
- he lengthened the nave and exchanged the lancet windows in the north transept for a wheel window, simplified the details of the east end