Fanlight

This article is about windows in architecture. For the community in the United States, see Fanlight, West Virginia. For the appliance, see ceiling fan.

A fanlight is a form of lunette window, often semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan.^[1] It is placed over another window or a doorway,^[2][3] and is sometimes hinged to a transom. The bars in the fixed glazed window spread out in the manner of a sunburst. It is also called a sunburst light.^[4] In federation housing it is also called a toplight or top light.^[5]

Fanlight at Montgomery's Inn in Toronto, Canada

Hotel in Ariah Park, New South Wales, with its name in the fanlight