clearstory
Americannoun
plural
clearstoriesnoun
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It doubtless resembled the basilican churches at Salonica, either with clearstory windows, as in S. Demetrius, or without such windows, as in Eski Juma Jamissi.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander
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.
She handed him a record as they sat there together in a broad ribbon of mid-morning sunlight that flooded down through one of the clearstory windows.
From Darkness and Dawn by England, George Allan
The Interior.—The natural division, in height, of an early church, whether basilican or domical, was into three stories—the ground level, the gallery level, and the clearstory or vault level.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander
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