Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Lancet window
LAN sit

A narrow window with a sharp pointed arch, very often with diamond-shaped lights (panes)

The term "lancet window" is properly applied to windows of austere form, without tracery. Paired windows were sometimes surmounted by a simple opening such as a quatrefoil

Commonly found in Gothic and Gothic Revival style

See also Church Vocabulary

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Examples from Buffalo architecture:

• Illustration above: St. Paul's Cathedral
  
  
• St. John's Grace Episcopal Church
  
  
• Asbury Delaware Avenue Methodist Church
  
  
• St. Louis RC Church
  
  
• St. Teresa RC Church
  
  
• How House
  
  
• Grace Episcopal Church, Lockport
  
  
• Annunciation RC Church Stained glass window