Mullion, Cornwall is also the name of a village in Cornwall off the Lizard. Mullion is the largest village on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, UK. External links http://www. ... Motto: Onen hag oll (Cornish: One and all) Geography Status Ceremonial and (smaller) Non-metropolitan county Region South West England Population - Total (2004 est. ... Lizard Point The Lizard is a peninsula of Cornwall, United Kingdom, and contains the most southerly point of the island Great Britain, Lizard Point. ...

A mullion is a framing element which divides adjacent window, door, or glass units. Mullions may be made of any material, but wood and aluminum are most common, although stone is also used in windows. Mullions are most commonly vertical or horizontal and sometimes diagonal, although more complex arrangements were popular during the Tudor era. A window is an opening in an otherwise solid, opaque surface through which light and sometimes air can pass. ... The front door of a house is often decorated to appear inviting. ... A tree trunk as found at the Veluwe, The Netherlands Wood derives from woody plants, notably trees but also shrubs. ... Sedimentary, volcanic, plutonic, metamorphic rock types of North America. ... The Tudor style, a term applied to the Perpendicular style, was originally that of the English architecture and decorative arts produced under the Tudor dynasty that ruled England from 1485 to 1603, characterized as an amalgam of Late Gothic style formalized by more concern for regularity and symmetry, with round...

A mullion acts as a structural member, and carries the dead load of the glass and the wind load acting on the glass to the anchor point and back to the building structure. Mullions vary from small members in doors or small glass areas, to very large and deep structural members in many curtain wall systems. Glass curtain wall of the Bauhaus Dessau. ...

In the past, mullions were necessary because it was not possible to produce sufficiently large panes of glass. In double-glazed windows, a grid resembling mullions is sometimes sandwiched between the panes as decoration. This is called a false mullion or muntin. A false mullion may also be attached to the front face of the glass for an aesthetic division of the glass because it is more costly to produce and install large quantities of smaller panes of glass. Insulated glazing is a piece of glazing consisting of two or more layers of glazing separated by a spacer along the edge and sealed to create a dead air space or a vauum between the layers. ...

See also

• came
• stained glass