Illustrated Dictionary of British Churches - Wheel Window Definition

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Wheel Window

A round window with radiating spokes emanating from a central roundel or boss. The wheel window is so named because its spokes resemble those of a cart wheel or modern bicycle wheel. Wheel windows are a form of rounded windows popularly called rose windows, and were common from the Norman period onwards.

See also: Rose Window

Related: Boss   Rose Window  




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Vikings sack Lindisfarne

Vikings sacked Lindisfarne, Northumbria. This Viking raid was part of ongoing Viking attacks that forced the monks of Lindisfarne to abandon their monastery and take the body of St Dunstan on a journey that eventually ended at Durham Cathedral.

This monarch dissolved all the monasteries in his realm as part of a split from the Catholic church in Rome



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