Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Wheel window

A large circular window in which the tracery of spokes radiating either from a central boss or from a central roundel

Earliest form of the rose window

Found especially in Italy and Germany

Found in  Romanesque stlye churches and later in Gothic and Gothic Revival styles

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Examples from Buffalo architecture:

• Illustration above: Christ the King Chapel, Canisius College
  
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• St. Casimir's RC Church
  
  
• St. Francis Xavier RC Church
  
  
• St. John the Evangelist RC Church
  
  
• St. Joseph's RC Cathedral

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