fanlight

{{Short description|Form of lunette window}}

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A fanlight is a form of lunette window, often semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan.{{cite book |last1=Poppeliers |first1=John C. |last2=Chambers |first2=S. Allen Jr. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_zh9I0gD9xwC&q=fanlight |title=What Style is it? A Guide to American Architecture |edition=2, revised, illustrated |publisher=John Wiley and Sons |year=2003 |location=New York |isbn=9780471250364 |page=135}} It is placed over another window or a doorway,{{cite book |last=Ching |first=Francis D. K. |year=1995 |title=A Visual Dictionary of Architecture |publisher=Adam Jumaa and Sons |location=New York |isbn=0-471-28451-3 |page=63}}{{cite web |url=http://ah.bfn.org/a/DCTNRY/f/fanlight.html |title=Fanlight |publisher=Illustrated Architecture Dictionary |access-date=2008-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080103093942/http://www.ah.bfn.org/a/DCTNRY/f/fanlight.html |archive-date=2008-01-03}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.ushistory.org/carpentershall/games/carpenter/fanlight.htm |title=Fanlight, Pilaster |publisher=ushistory.org |access-date=2008-01-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070509191632/http://www.ushistory.org/carpentershall/games/carpenter/fanlight.htm |archive-date=2007-05-09 }} In federation housing it is also called a toplight or top light.{{Cite journal |last=East |first=John |date=2024-01-01 |title=The Federation Bungalow in Brisbane: An Architectural History |url=https://www.academia.edu/122000127/The_Federation_Bungalow_in_Brisbane_An_Architectural_History}}