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Definition of Triforium

Triforium
Triforium Tri*fo"ri*um, n. [LL., fr. L. tri- (see Tri-) + foris, pl. fores, a door.] (Arch.) The gallery or open space between the vaulting and the roof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows.

Meaning of Triforium from wikipedia

- A triforium is an interior gallery, opening onto the tall central space of a building at an upper level. In a church, it opens onto the nave from above...
- Triforium is a 60-foot high (18 m), concrete public art sculpture mounted with 1,494 Venetian gl**** prisms, light bulbs, and an internal 79-bell carillon...
- third level was inserted between them, a gallery called the "triforium". The triforium generally opens into space beneath the sloping roof of the aisle...
- thinner, made extensive use of pinnacles and moldings. They combined the triforium gallery and the clerestory into single space and filled it with stained...
- vaulting (1608, restored 1860s) over the nave at Bath Abbey, Bath, England. Suppression of the triforium offers a greater expanse of clerestory windows....
- interior, in the lowest part of the wall of the nave, supporting the triforium and the clerestory in a cathedral, or on the exterior, in which they are...
- (arcade, tribune, triforium, clerestory) was transformed in the choir of Beauvais Cathedral to very tall arcades, a thin triforium, and soaring windows...
- Rayonnant style of Gothic architecture. The Rayonnant appeared in the triforium and clerestory, which were begun in 1236, and in the enlarged high windows...
- Structural elements of a gothic basilica. Variations: Where the roofs have a low slope, the triforium gallery may have own windows or may be missing....
- elevation of the nave, showing the gallery on the ground level; the narrow triforium; and, on top, the windows of the clerestory Flying buttress supporting...