How To Use Clerestory In A Sentence
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Perpendicular window, to support which the low circular arch in the centre had been constructed; on either side of this window were now to be seen the mouldings and featherings of the original early decorated lights, on a level with the lateral clerestory range; below these the Norman arcade, based upon a string course of nebule ornaments.
Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
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Summer cross-ventilation can be obtained through opening lights in the glass wall and the motorized panes of the clerestory.
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If you decide to glue the roof in place now, install the correct clerestory vent sides, depending on whether your car had air conditioning or not in the period you're modeling.
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The fascia board and clerestory strips were attached.
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A band of treble billet moulding runs under the lower windows; a double hatched moulding under the second tier; and immediately below the parapet is the ornament called the corbel table; these with the billet moulding round the clerestory windows, are in excellent preservation.
Ely Cathedral
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The eastern part of the clerestory is a modern reproduction of that which superseded Rahere's; but, with this exception, the interior of the choir was probably much the same originally as it is
Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less
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Standing above the river Trent is St Wystan's Church, much of which is of the mid-C14 and C15 including the tower and spire, clerestory, and roof.
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Close to this window, and rising up just above the sill of the clerestory windows, is a narrow, flat buttress, which is probably of the same date as the window.
Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See
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Barbara Karant Glade House Lake Forest, Ill. Frederick Phillips and Associates This 3,200-square-foot house outside Chicago mixes traditional features -- cedar shingle siding, regularly-spaced vertical windows and gabled roofs -- with modern touches such as clerestory windows and an open-plan interior.
Prize-Winning Residences
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Two spacious aisles run up each side of the nave, separated by clustered columns supporting pointed arches, the front row being surmounted by a narrow mullioned triforium and a lofty clerestory, both lighted by beautifully-painted glass windows.
The South of France—East Half
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The window openings enclosed the magnificent views of the cliffs and the clerestory windows brought softened light.
Bird Cloud
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Externally the cars have clerestory roofs.
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The nave and choir can have no triforium or clerestory so must be lit by exceptionally large aisle windows.
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A new jumbo monopitch supported by heavy steel trusses caps the building and introduces light through clerestory glazing.
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The cathedral has the traditional triforium arcade with two round arches under one larger one per bay and clerestory windows above.
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There are two small windows in the west wall to light the wall passage to the clerestory, which is reached by a gallery running across the base of the north window.
Bell's Cathedrals: Wimbourne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings
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This applies only to the windows in the aisle; those in the triforium are of three lights, similar to those removed from the aisle; and those in the clerestory are the original Norman, just as on the north side.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See
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Gothic order has its columnar support, its arch (in place of the beam), its decoratively treated stage (the triforium), occupying the space against which the aisle roof abuts, and its clerestory, or window stage.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888
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But the respective level of these essential members were so different in the old and new works that the only parts of them that could be retained were the windows of the old clerestory, which falls just above the new triforium tablet, and accordingly these old windows may still be seen in the triforia of the transepts, surmounted by the new pointed clerestory windows.
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].
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Extensive fenestration and clerestory windows maximize natural light and provide views of the adjacent park and the city down oak-lined 36th Street.
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The Romanesque is of Transitional type, with wide pointed arches and barrel vault, a clerestory but no triforium.
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The roundhouse was red sandstone brick with graceful arches over most of the ten stalls and a corrugated metal roof adorned with a ventilated clerestory.
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On the restaurant's interior, the steel beams support roof and the beams also accommodate several strip-shaped clerestory windows which bring in natural light and view from outside.
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I thought the term clerestory window was pronounced like cler-est-or-eee.
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In ecclesiastical buildings, the triforium, a windowless gallery above the main arcade, was of great importance, largely for structural reasons, in contrast to the enlarged clerestory of Gothic architecture.
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Light pours down at the ceremonial end from an unseen clerestory set into the roof where it steps up to offer nobility.
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Inside appears the three-storeyed division of ground floor arcade, triforium and clerestory.
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A clerestory on either side, and a flush panoramic window extend across the full width of the facade which faces across a valley.
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Both have 'lierne' vaults [_i. e._, vaults in which short transverse ribs or 'liernes' are mixed with the ribs that branch from the vaulting capitals], and in both the triforium is obtained by prolonging the clerestory windows downward, and making panels of the lower lights, which panels have a plain opening cut through them, by which the triforium space communicates with the passage over the roof of the side-aisles.
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].
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Above the triforium is the clerestory, which contains one light to each sub-bay, and surmounting all is the vaulting, which springs from the piers and from grotesquely carved corbels between the triforium arches.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See
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The transepts are of the transitional style of the end of the twelfth century; the piers which carry the central tower are of the usual transitional type, having graceful capitals and square abaci supporting round arches; on each side of the north transept there are two original clerestory windows, and one of them has angle shafts, with carved caps and mouldings.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
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The clerestory windows are of uniform pattern of the style known as geometrical Decorated.
The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See
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One is of the Miracle of the loaves and fishes from the top register of the nave wall (above the clerestory windows) of Sant 'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, ca. 504.
A Reader Question About Symbols on Christian Mosaics
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Just one of his guiding principles, that nothing should be built higher than the clerestory of the Minster, has insured that it remains a resolutely low-rise city.
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The four-wheel clerestory roof planked side Sachsen coach will be in original red livery.
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Highlights of these volumes are the windows of the choir clerestory, and the tracery lights of various chapels and of the chapter house.
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Sunlight fell in narrow shafts from gaps in boarded-up clerestory windows.
VITALS
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The tower certainly stood on the site of the present tower, as Roman ashlaring has been discovered on the north-west side of the north-west tower pier, above the vault of the side aisle, and also portions of a shaft with a base, which probably belonged to the Norman clerestory.
The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See
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Without staying to examine the whole structure of a basilica, the reader will easily understand thus much of it: that it had a nave and two aisles, the nave much higher than the aisles; that the nave was separated from the aisles by rows of shafts, which supported, above, large spaces of flat or dead wall, rising above the aisles, and forming the upper part of the nave, now called the clerestory, which had a gabled wooden roof.
Stones of Venice [introductions]
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On one project, the heliodon helped the architects size the overhang on a cupola and observe the effects of clerestory windows on the spaces below.
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He wanted to carve a whole doorway all by himself; he wanted to persuade Tom to have stone angels in the clerestory; he had an innovative design for blind arcading in the transepts which he had not even shown to anyone yet.
The Pillars of the Earth
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A clammy conferva covers everything except the mosaics upon tribune, roof, and clerestory, which defy the course of age.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
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Over the whole aisle on each side runs a broad gallery usually called the "triforium," lighted by Perpendicular windows in the outer wall; and above is the "clerestory," or "clear-story," affording a narrow passage in the thickness of the main wall, lighted by the original Norman windows; thus the height is divided into three parts -- ground-story, triforium, and clerestory; and the breadth into the same number -- nave, north aisle, and south aisle; probably designed as a type of the Trinity, as it is thought by many that these symbolical considerations were used in the building of churches in early ages.
Ely Cathedral
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A cove-lit ceiling vault braced with polished steel rods is dramatically cut away to reveal a steel-framed butterfly roof and clerestory that survive from the original factory.
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The last major alteration was made soon afterwards when a clerestory was built above the nave arcades.
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The 'clerestory' of the sixteenth century is full of painted glass.
Normandy Picturesque
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And the clerestory windows of the choir, glazed with large standing figures, are virtually intact.
