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Tripartite window resembling a serliana, but with the arch omitted and the entablature carried over the wider central window, named after its inventor, James Wyatt. It may be placed in a segmental-headed recess, or may be capped by a pediment (e.g. the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford (1776–94).
Wyatt window Common domestic type,c.1810.
Subjects: Architecture.
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