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- In architecture, a clerestory (/ˈklɪərstɔːri/ KLEER-stor-ee; lit. 'clear storey', also clearstory, clearstorey, or overstorey; from Old French cler estor)...
- new octagonal interior within the s**** of the medieval chapel, its clerestorey rising above the old walls. The new construction was made entirely of...
- octagonal columns, and abundant daylight streams in through the tall clerestorey windows. The interior is almost devoid of imagery of the sort to be found...
- arcade, triforium, and clerestorey. Piers coronations were smaller to avoid stopping the visual upward thrust. The clerestorey windows changed from one...
- arcade dating from the 13th-century, aisles from the 14th-century and the clerestorey, north porch and chancel date from the 15th-century. A bell tower of...
- finished with a pierced parapet, broken by decorative gables above the clerestorey windows, above which rises a steeply pitched slate roof with many small...
- (consecrated 1046) has a nave and aisles divided by piers supporting a clerestorey. The nave is divided by transverse arches. The interior would have been...
- the 1698 fall of the central tower which destro**** the chancel. The clerestorey and chancel were rebuilt in 1793 when the west bell turret, spire and...
- The church is laid out in a cruciform plan with an aisled nave and a clerestorey of seven bays. The west tower has elaborate buttressing, panelling and...
- into ninths. There is also a wonderful array of tracery designs in the clerestorey windows. More detailed analysis nevertheless reveals a number of changes...