Oriel
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An oriel window
Oriel window
Oriel windows are a form of bay window commonly found in Gothic architecture, which project from the main wall of the building but do not reach to the ground. Corbels or brackets are often used to support this kind of window. They are seen in combination with the Tudor arch. This type of window was...

is a type of bay window which projects from a wall.

Oriel may also refer to:

Places in the United Kingdom:
  • Oriel College, Oxford
  • Oriel Street
    Oriel Street
    Oriel Street is a narrow but historic street running between the High Street to the north and Oriel Square to the south in central Oxford, England. The street is now blocked off to traffic by bollards at the High Street end....

    , Oxford
  • Oriel Square
    Oriel Square
    Oriel Square, formerly known as Canterbury Square is a square in central Oxford, England, located south of the High Street. The name was changed after the Second World War at the request of Oriel College which maintained that the square had originally been known as Oriel Square.To the east at the...

    , Oxford
  • Oriel Chambers
    Oriel Chambers
    Oriel Chambers is the world's first metal framed glass curtain walled building. Designed by architect Peter Ellis and built in 1864, it comprises set over five floors...

    , Liverpool


Places in Ireland:
  • Oriel Park
    Oriel Park
    Oriel Park is a multi-purpose stadium in Dundalk, County Louth, Republic of Ireland. It is used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Dundalk F.C. Its current capacity is about 4,500 with 3,000 seats. The ground was opened in 1919.-History:...

    , Dundalk, the home ground of Dundalk FC
  • Oriel House
    Oriel House
    Oriel House is a hotel in the west end of the town of Ballincollig, County Cork, Ireland. It was built shortly after the Ballincollig Gunpowder Mills which was built in 1794 by Charles Henry Leslie. In 1983 it was officially opened as a hotel by William and Angela Shanahan...

    , Ballincollig, County Cork
  • The Kingdom of Oriel, an ancient kingdom in North East Ireland


Birds:
  • Oriole
    Oriole
    Orioles are colourful Old World passerine birds in the genus Oriolus, the namesake of the corvoidean family Oriolidae. They are not related to the New World orioles, which are icterids and, belonging to the superfamily Passeroidea songbirds, are quite unrelated to the true orioles.The orioles are...

    s, Old World singing birds of the family Oriolidae
  • New World Oriole
    New World oriole
    New World orioles, comprising the genus Icterus, are a group of birds in the blackbird family. They are not related to Old World orioles which are in the family Oriolidae, but are strikingly similar in size, diet, behaviour and in their strongly contrasting plumage, and are a good example of...

    s, of the genus Icterus, of the family Icteridae


Businesses:
  • Oriel Wind Farm
    Oriel Wind Farm
    Oriel Windfarm is a privately owned Irish sustainable and renewable energy company. It was established in order to develop wind farms in Ireland and the company’s first project is the development of an offshore wind farm in the northwest Irish Sea....

    , Irish wind power business
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