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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 186 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TRANSOM (probably a corruption of See also:Lat. transtrum, a thwart, in a See also:boat; equivalents are Fr. See also:traverse, croisillon, Ger. Losholz)  ,the architectural See also:term given to the See also:horizontal See also:lintel or See also:beam which is framed across a window, dividing it into stages or heights . In See also:early See also:Gothic ecclesiastical See also:work transoms are only found in See also:belfry unglazed windows or See also:spire See also:lights, where they were deemed necessary to strengthen the mullions in the See also:absence of the See also:iron stay bars, which in glazed windows served a similar purpose . In domestic work, on See also:account of the opening casements, they are more frequently found . In the later Gothic, and more especially the Perpendicular See also:period, the introduction of transoms became very See also:general in windows of all kinds .

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