Knowledge (XXG)

Cross-window

Source 📝

28: 120:
style). Where the transom is in the middle, the window is divided into four lights of equal size. Later the windows were often divided into six lights, the two upper ones often being joined and forming a type of
150: 84:. The two, upper lights were usually somewhat smaller than the two lower ones and could be opened separately. The latter is also true for a 100:
Characteristically the rectangular window is divided into four individual lights by a mullion and transom in the form of a
105: 73: 89: 58: 109: 77: 69: 34: 146: 194: 81: 85: 50: 27: 188: 104:. The window cross was original made of stone ('stone cross-window'); not until the 113: 101: 112:
periods did the timber cross-window emerge (e. g. on the abbey castle of
80:
on buildings. Since then the latter have almost exclusively been reserved for
72:
cross-window is known since the 14th century and replaced the hitherto common
31: 179: 117: 17: 122: 169:. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim/Wien/Zürich 1973, Vol. 8, p. 638. 54: 46: 62: 26: 143:
Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
145:, 2nd ed., OUP, Oxford and New York, p. 214. 8: 134: 7: 180:Examples of cross-windows in Austria 25: 88:, which has a horizontal bar or 167:Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon 116:and on other buildings in the 1: 141:Curl, James Stevens (2006). 37:building with cross-windows 211: 92:separating the lights. 38: 30: 39: 151:978-0-19-860678-9 53:are defined by a 16:(Redirected from 202: 154: 139: 82:church buildings 21: 210: 209: 205: 204: 203: 201: 200: 199: 185: 184: 176: 163: 158: 157: 140: 136: 131: 98: 23: 22: 15: 12: 11: 5: 208: 206: 198: 197: 187: 186: 183: 182: 175: 174:External links 172: 171: 170: 162: 159: 156: 155: 133: 132: 130: 127: 97: 94: 86:transom window 24: 14: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 207: 196: 193: 192: 190: 181: 178: 177: 173: 168: 165: 164: 160: 152: 148: 144: 138: 135: 128: 126: 124: 119: 115: 111: 107: 103: 95: 93: 91: 87: 83: 79: 78:arched window 75: 71: 66: 64: 60: 56: 52: 48: 44: 36: 33: 29: 19: 166: 142: 137: 99: 67: 61:, forming a 43:cross-window 42: 40: 18:Cross window 106:Renaissance 102:Latin cross 70:Late Gothic 161:Literature 129:References 76:or Gothic 74:Romanesque 32:Flamboyant 118:Herrerian 189:Category 123:fanlight 114:Escorial 195:Windows 110:Baroque 90:transom 59:transom 55:mullion 149:  96:Design 57:and a 51:lights 49:whose 47:window 35:Gothic 63:cross 45:is a 147:ISBN 108:and 68:The 191:: 125:. 65:. 41:A 153:. 20:)

Index

Cross window

Flamboyant
Gothic
window
lights
mullion
transom
cross
Late Gothic
Romanesque
arched window
church buildings
transom window
transom
Latin cross
Renaissance
Baroque
Escorial
Herrerian
fanlight
ISBN
978-0-19-860678-9
Examples of cross-windows in Austria
Category
Windows

Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.