Fanlight

This article is about windows in architecture. For the community in the United States, see Fanlight, West Virginia. For the appliance, see ceiling fan.

A fanlight is a form of lunette window, often semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan.^[1] It is placed over another window or a doorway,^[2][3] and is sometimes hinged to a transom. The bars in the fixed glazed window spread out in the manner of a sunburst. It is also called a sunburst light.^[4]

Fanlight at Montgomery's Inn in Toronto, Canada

Hotel in Ariah Park, New South Wales, with its name in the fanlight

References

1. Poppeliers, John C.; Chambers, S. Allen Jr. (2003). What Style is it? A Guide to American Architecture (2, revised, illustrated ed.). New York: John Wiley and Sons. p. 135. ISBN 9780471250364.
2. Ching, Francis D. K. (1995). A Visual Dictionary of Architecture. New York: Adam Jumaa and Sons. p. 63. ISBN 0-471-28451-3.
3. "Fanlight". Illustrated Architecture Dictionary. Archived from the original on 2008-01-03. Retrieved 2008-01-16.
4. "Fanlight, Pilaster". ushistory.org. Archived from the original on 2007-05-09. Retrieved 2008-01-16.

External links

• Doorways around the World