Beautiful Bay Windows
by Michelle Meenawong
Title
Beautiful Bay Windows
Artist
Michelle Meenawong
Medium
Photograph - Metal Print
Description
A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room.
Bay window is a generic term for all protruding window constructions, regardless of whether they run over one or multiple storeys.
In plan, the most frequently used shapes are isosceles trapezoid (which may be referred to as a canted bay window[ and rectangle. But other polygonal shapes with more than two corners are also common as are curved shapes. If a bay window is curved it may alternatively be called bow window. Bay windows in a triangular shape with just one corner exist but are relatively rare.
A bay window supported by a corbel, bracket or similar is called an oriel window.
Most medieval bay windows and up to the baroque era are oriel windows. They frequently appear as a highly ornamented addition to the building rather than an organic part of it. Particularly during the Gothic period they often serve as small house chapels, with the oriel window containing an altar and resembling an apse of a church.
Bay windows can make a room appear larger, and provide views of the outside which would be unavailable with an ordinary flat window.
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November 16th, 2019
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