Fanlight Montgomery's Inn, Ontario

A fanlight is a window, 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 a sunburst. It is also called a "sunburst light".[4]

A chiefly British use of the word is to mean "transom".[5]

Semi-circular fanlight windows with brick divides, People's State Bank (Orangeville, Illinois)

Main door and fanlight, Joseph Priestley House in Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Germany

City gate Milan, Italy
Door, Jersey

Palácio Nacional da Pena, Sintra, Portugal

Bilbao Airport windows

Hotel, Ariah Park, New South Wales

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  1. ^ Poppeliers et al., John C. (1983). What Style is it?. NY: John Wiley and Sons. p. 100. ISBN 0-471-14434-7. 
  2. ^ Ching, Francis D.K. (1995). A Visual Dictionary of Architecture. New York: John Wiley and Sons. p. 63. ISBN 0-471-82451-3. 
  3. ^ "Fanlight". Illustrated Architecture Dictionary. http://ah.bfn.org/a/DCTNRY/f/fanlight.html. Retrieved 2008-01-16. 
  4. ^ "Fanlight, Pilaster". ushistory.org. http://www.ushistory.org/carpentershall/games/carpenter/fanlight.htm. Retrieved 2008-01-16. 
  5. ^ "fanlight". Bartleby.com. http://www.bartleby.com/61/18/F0031800.html. Retrieved 2008-01-18. 
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