wheel window

noun

wheel window

It is divided into three equal portions each of which is surmounted by a gable containing what was at one time a wheel window.

The wheel window of the faade is beautified with exceptionally good tracing.

The church of S. Agostino, difficult to find in the slums, has a remarkable faade with a beautiful wheel window.

Further north is a Baptist chapel, with two noticeable pointed towers and a central wheel window.

Above the central door is usually seen, in the later Lombard churches, a S. Catherine's-wheel window.

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