Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c15.34

c15.34

*Windows* Windows were of two main types, the first identical with the ordinary Kandyan door on a small scale, the second fitted with lacquered wooden bars. Those of the first type, as Mr. Lewis remarks, are constructed in every respect like doors, having a massive frame, and a single or double leaf fastened by a bolt. There are typical windows of this character at Kuṇḍasāle and Degaldoruva Vihāras; the latter with elegant iron bars. Mr. Lewis figures one,* no longer in *situ*, which is remarkable for its circular bolt and hinged leaf; it shows very well the typical arched lintel, equally characteristic of doors and windows. The arches are sometimes double, as in the door-lintel shown in Pl. VII., 8.