clearstory
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clearstories
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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 Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
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 Alexander Van Millingen
It was, however, probably added at the same time as the nave clearstory.
From The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains by Frederick W. Woodhouse
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 Frederick W. Woodhouse
The panelling beneath the clearstory is richer than that in the nave.
From The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains by Frederick W. Woodhouse
The graceful treatment of the windows of the nave and choir clearstories is shown in the illustration.
From The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains by Frederick W. Woodhouse
The deep panelling beneath the windows must have been carried out when the clearstories were constructed in the fifteenth century.
From The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains by Frederick W. Woodhouse
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