. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ntury that they can be fairly called rose windows;before that period they are more properly denominated tvlieel windows, the radiatingmullions resembling the spokes of a wheel and beingformed of small columns regularly furnished with basesand capitals, and connected at top by semicirculararches or by trefoils. By many the more decoratedcircular window has been called the marigold window,but we scarcely know why that should have been rose wi
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ntury that they can be fairly called rose windows;before that period they are more properly denominated tvlieel windows, the radiatingmullions resembling the spokes of a wheel and beingformed of small columns regularly furnished with basesand capitals, and connected at top by semicirculararches or by trefoils. By many the more decoratedcircular window has been called the marigold window,but we scarcely know why that should have been rose windows are used in gables, but their dimen-sions are then generally smaller and they are often en-closed in segmental curves whose versed sines form anequilateral triangle or a segmental sqiiaie. An early specimen of the wheel window is in Bar-freston Church {fig. 180. ), wherein it is manifestly laterthan the other parts of the front. The example fromPatrixbourne Church, Kent {fig. II86.), is a curiousand early example of the wheel window ; herein, andindeed in .ill the minor examples, a single order of columns is disposed round the centre;. rATRlXBOUKNK.
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