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clerestory Arch. (ˈklɪəstɔərɪ) Also 5 clerstory, clarestory, 6 clerestorey, (7 clarester), 8 cleer story, 5–9 clear story, 9 clearstory. [Commonly believed to be f. clere, clear + story stage of a building, ‘floor’ of a house. (Clere must here have meant ‘light, lighted,’ since the sense ‘free, unob...
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Clerestory
Clerestory appeared in Egypt at least as early as the Amarna period. Transportation
Clerestory roofs were used on railway carriages (known as "clerestory carriages") from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s.
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clerestory
clerestory/ˈklɪəstɔ:rɪ; `klɪrˌstɔrɪ/ nupper part of a wall in a large church, with a row of windows, above the roofs of the aisles 高侧墙(大教堂墙壁的上部, 高於侧廊的屋顶, 有一排高侧窗).
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Triforium
In a church, it opens onto the nave from above the side aisles; it may occur at the level of the clerestory windows, or it may be located as a separate level below the clerestory.
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with Raw Eggs: Re-Draft 6 (with Alan Bunn) (Clerestory Press/School for Young Writers, 2006)
The Polar Bear Ward: Re-Draft 7 (with Tessa Duder) (Clerestory Feet: Redraft 12 (with Tessa Duder) (Clerestory Press, 2012)
Mad Honey: Redraft 13 (with Tessa Duder) (Clerestory Press, 2013)
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St Mary's Church, Garthorpe
The clerestory is in three bays, and on its eastern gable is a cross. The rest of the building is Gothic, with the clerestory and west tower being Perpendicular Gothic.
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clerestorial
† clerestorial, a. Obs. rare. [f. next + -al1. The formation suggests an Anglo-Latin clerestorium: but this is not in Du Cange.] Belonging to the clerestory.1435 Contract Fotheringhay Ch. 28, viij clerestorial windows set yn the myddes of the walle.
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St Mary the Virgin's Church, Ayston
The tower was also built in the 14th century, and about this time the clerestory was added. It consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel, a south porch, and a west tower.
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sexfoiled
sexfoiled, a. (ˈsɛksfɔɪld) [f. prec.] = prec. A.1846 Ecclesiologist VI. 69 The clerestory is Middle-Pointed, of sexfoiled circles. 1851 Turner Dom. Archit. II. iv. 167 The highest part of which [window] is sex-foiled.
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Church of St Fimbarrus, Fowey
The church was damaged by the French in 1457, and repaired in 1460 by the Earl of Warwick, when the clerestory and the north and south aisles were rebuilt There is a nave and two aisles with a clerestory, and the aisles are unusually wide; the aisles and the clerestory may be additions of the 15th century
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St Paul's Church, Skelmersdale
The clerestory windows have arched heads and contain rounded tracery. Below the clerestory windows is a continuous impost with a raised carved inscription in Latin.
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Church of St Michael the Archangel, Compton Martin
The nave is entirely late Norm., and possesses the unusual feature of a clerestory. The aisles are Perp., and the one on the S. curiously encloses the clerestory.
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