clearstory
Americannoun
plural
clearstoriesnoun
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The north aisle is lofty and has a clearstory of three windows over the arcade.
From The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains by Woodhouse, Frederick W.
We have no record of the building of the clearstory 62and roof of the nave.
From The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains by Woodhouse, Frederick W.
These windows come as a surprise in a land where churches are guarded from the sun, and often the open triforium and clearstory, as at Avila, are walled up later to darken the interior.
From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle
In the West these structural divisions were developed into the triple composition of nave-arcade, triforium, and clearstory.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander
The clearstory was restored in 1861 "from sufficiently clear indications" in the remains of the original windows.
From The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains by Woodhouse, Frederick W.
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