The Textbook of Architecture

The Cabinet of Models

The rose window

Radial bar tracery in a circle: spokes, cusped heads and foiled oculi, or the simpler Romanesque wheel.

The rose window Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Gothic · Romanesque

The rules it illustrates

The rose: a window turned about its centre. Design a rose by dividing the circle into equal sectors; fill each with the same traceried unit (a light with a cusped pointed head, an oculus above) radiating from a central hub, so that the whole is generated from one sector by rotation.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Romanesque and Gothic.

The terms it shows

Rose window