I thought the term clerestory window was pronounced like cler-est-or-eee. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Wimbourne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings] Reference
The 'clerestory' of the sixteenth century is full of painted glass. From Wordnik.com. [Normandy Picturesque] Reference
The clerestory windows are partly concealed by the vaulting. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
The screens to the gallery before the clerestory lancets have. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
The clerestory of the west wall looking out over the aisle and. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
The tracery of the windows in the clerestory is ascribed to Abbot. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference
In the clerestory on the north side the windows have been restored by. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference
The clerestory windows on each side are two-lighted, with quatrefoil heads. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
We hope to see soon all the clerestory and aisle windows bright with colour. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
In the windows of the clerestory are to be seen some fragments of old glass. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference
The clerestory is lighted by plain lancet windows, enclosed in an elegant arcading. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
The hemicycle became the apse; the gallery, a clerestory; the hall, a central nave. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
The windows in the clerestory tell the tale of a later time, probably that of Abbot. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference
The barrack-rooms are lofty and airy, with verandahs all round, and clerestory windows. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Lofty chapels between the buttresses, and over the arches diminutive clerestory windows. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The clerestory of the nave is divided from the stories below by an enriched string course. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
It has therefore no windows except in the clerestory, and some bays even of this have none. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
The parapet on the wall of the aisle is embattled, that above the clerestory windows is plain. From Wordnik.com. [Ely Cathedral] Reference
The clerestory gallery is, on each side of the choir proper, quite in the thickness of the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
Over the arches, which are early pointed, run a built-up triforium and circular clerestory windows. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Indulgence Chamber, that no clerestory windows are to be seen there, but only blind arcading and blank wall. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
The windows in the clerestory retain their original form, but those of the two lower tiers have been altered. From Wordnik.com. [Ely Cathedral] Reference
On either side of the presbytery the clerestory gallery springs from wall-piers with clustered Purbeck shafts. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
Norman clerestory, and placed their thin weak work too low, destroying all the original grandeur of effect. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference
The = North Side = of the nave corresponds with the south, each bay containing a lancet window in the clerestory. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
The clerestory, however, which is like that on the north side, appears over the red-tiled roof of that modern structure. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
Following the example of the lights in the east window, these clerestory windows have alternately red and blue backgrounds. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference
The open parapet was removed, the clerestory windows replaced by the present inferior ones, and the fine oak roof destroyed. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
In the early part of the fifteenth century a clerestory and open parapet were added, and a new oak roof placed over the nave. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
The stained glass of the clerestory windows of the nave dates from the 15th cent.; but only a few are complete, having been injured by. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
This Norman clerestory was altered at the same time that the roof of the nave was vaulted -- viz. in 1242, in the time of Henry Foliot. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference
Gloucester choir having been left comparatively intact below the clerestory, and veiled over with richly wrought Perpendicular stonework. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
The frame of the house was recycled from the 1920s Alamo Cement factory in San Antonio, with its steel trusses and clerestory at the crown of the roof. From Wordnik.com. [A SENSE OF PLACE] Reference
A band of decorated clerestory windows fills the space with a uniform pale-green light like a fine mist; the colorful geometric carpet is as enticing underfoot as cool sand. From Wordnik.com. [A Minaret Over Manhattan] Reference
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