Above Door Fanlight

A small window over the top of a door.

Above door fanlight.

While it serves a similar function to provide additional light through a traditional window or door a fanlight is semi circular in shape and can through the inclusion of bars be used to fan the light out through a room. Window a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air. Main door and fanlight joseph priestley house in. It is placed over another window or a doorway 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.

Sometimes hinged to a transom is a fanlight. Meaning pronunciation translations and examples. Fanlight a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door. A fanlight is a window often semicircular or semi elliptical in shape with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan.

Fanlight definition a window over a door or another window especially one having the form of a semicircle or of half an ellipse.