clearstory
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The examples he produces seem rather octagons carried up from the ground to give a clearstory under the dome than true drums interposed between the dome and its pendentives.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander
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 windows are high in the clearstory and set so deeply in the casement that the light falling on the mural paintings and fresco work is sifted and softened.
From Through Our Unknown Southwest by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
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
Like Salisbury it has the uncommon feature of two sets of transepts; the clearstory is carried round the church, unbroken by rose windows at the west or transept ends.
From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle
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 Woodhouse, Frederick W.
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 Woodhouse, Frederick W.
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