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The south rose window in Notre Dame de Paris, one of the best-known examples of windows in church architecture

Church windows are windows within cathedrals, basilicas and other church edifices. They have been a central element in church architecture since Early Christianity.

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Church window

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Church windows are windows within cathedrals, basilicas and other church edifices. They have been a central element in church architecture since Early...

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Battenberg cake

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Marshall, 1898), "Neapolitan Roll" (recipe by Robert Wells, 1898), or "Church Window Cake". The cake was purportedly named in honour of the marriage of Princess...

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Window

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A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof, or vehicle that allows the exchange of light and may also allow the passage of sound and sometimes air. Modern...

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Rose window

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Rose window is often used as a generic term applied to a circular window, but is especially used for those found in Gothic cathedrals and churches. The...

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Lancet window

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this architectural element are typical of Gothic church edifices of the earliest period. Lancet windows may occur singly, or paired under a single moulding...

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Stained glass

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exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations...

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Bay window

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A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room. It typically consists of a central windowpane...

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Tracery

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(the glazed openings in the window) have the appearance of being cut out of a flat plate of masonry. Romanesque church windows were normally quite small...

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Window tax

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People who were exempt from paying church or poor rates, for reasons of poverty, were exempt from the window tax. Window tax was relatively unintrusive and...

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Overton window

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Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. It is also known as the window of discourse...

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Stained glass windows by Harry Clarke

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2024-04-16. "Window - W03 - Carnalway, St Patrick - Gloine - Stained glass in the Church of Ireland". Gloine: Stained Glass in the Church of Ireland. Retrieved...

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The Diabolical Church Window

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The Diabolical Church Window (French: Le Vitrail diabolique) is a 1911 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was numbered 1548–1556 for the catalogues...

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Leadlight

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with the ornate coloured-glass windows of churches and similar buildings, while the latter is associated with the windows of vernacular architecture and...

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Oriel window

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oriel window in the City of London, Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great 19th-century neo-gothic oriel window on Bradford City Hall Oriel window located...

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Tiffany glass

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Studio Window At St. Paul's Confirmed". Garden City News. "Te Deum Window". Westminster Presbyterian Church. Retrieved 10 August 2015. "Te Deum Window" (PDF)...

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Window prostitution

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Window prostitution is a form of prostitution that is fairly common in the Netherlands and surrounding countries. The prostitute rents a window plus workspace...

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Holsworthy

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Methodist Church 1910". The porch, with a two-light window above, is flanked by two-light windows under continuous hood moulds. The church and hall have...

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Dormer

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English Gothic churches and cathedrals. An early example are the lucarnes of the spire of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. Dormer windows have been used...

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Flamboyant

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examples of Flamboyant style are the west rose window of Sainte-Chapelle (1485–1498); the west porch of the Church of Saint-Maclou, Rouen, (c.1500–1514); the...

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Gergeti Trinity Church

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quadrangles. Each of the ten windows of the dome also has an arch frame, made of astragal. The belltower, standing to the south of the church, consists of a belfry...

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Louis Comfort Tiffany

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Memorial Window. Significant collections of Tiffany windows outside the United States are the 17 windows in the former Erskine and American United Church, now...

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Sash window

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A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels, or "sashes". The individual sashes are traditionally paned windows, but can now...

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