Iconography:  Saint Catherine of the Wheel                                 Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Wheel window / Catherine Wheel


A round window with muntins radiating from the center, as in the spokes of a wheel.

Catherine wheel:  Saint Catherine was tortured on a wheel by the Emperor Maxentius for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. The wheel broke and Catherine was eventually beheaded instead.

Earliest form of the rose window

Found especially in Italy and Germany

Found in  Romanesque style churches and later in Gothic and Gothic Revival styles


Examples from Buffalo architecture:

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