Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Lantern
Also called a lantern light

A tower or small turret with windows or openings for light and air, crowning a dome or cupola.

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Examples from Buffalo architecture:

• Illustration above: Plymouth Methodist Church / Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum (lantern above octagonal cupola)
  
  
• Corpus Christi RC Church
  
  
• Blessed Trinity RC Church
  
  
• St. Michael RC Church

Other examples:

• St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England
  
  
• Entrance, Louvre Museum, Paris, France
  
  
• Panthéon, Paris, France
  
  
• Cathedral,Catania, Sicily
  
  
• Church of St. Andrew, Cracow, Poland

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Photos and their arrangement © 2002 Chuck LaChiusa
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