1. Rose Windows

2. A circular window often found in Gothic Churches.
Rose Windows:
A circular window often found in Gothic Churches.
Occasionally called “wheel windows”

3. Still found as a major architectural feature in large churches today
Rose Windows:
Still found as a major architectural feature in large churches today

4. Rose Windows:
Wheel Windows:
Simple windows with a tracery of spokes radiating from the center

5. Beverly Minster Rose Window

6. Beverly Minster Rose Window

7. Early Gothic: Overlapping arcs like flower petals, circles or squares.
Rose Windows:
Early Gothic:
Overlapping arcs like flower petals, circles or squares.

8. Laon Cathedral

9. Laon Cathedral

10. Rose Windows: Rayonnant Gothic:
Divided from center with overlapping, complex designs.
Often pointed arches were a feature.

11. Bristol Cathedral

12. Bristol Cathedral

13. Bristol Cathedral

14. Rose Windows: Flamboyant Gothic:
Designed with overlapping S-curves to give a flame-like appearance.

15. Sainte Chapelle

16. Sainte Chapelle

17. Sainte Chapelle

18. Rose Windows:
Other examples:

19. Bangor, Maine

20. Mosaic of Emperor Justinian

21. Prague

22. Salinas, California

23. Rheims Cathedral