Like Salisbury it has the uncommon feature of two sets of transepts; the clearstory is carried round the church, unbroken by rose windows at the west or transept ends.
It doubtless resembled the basilican churches at Salonica, either with clearstory windows, as in S.
The upper range is situated a little below the ceiling, and forms a sort of clearstory of ten lights; the lower range has five windows, except in the western wall, where the place of one window is occupied by the entrance.
The examples he produces seem rather octagons carried up from the ground to give a clearstory under the dome than true drums interposed between the dome and its pendentives.
There was no triforium gallery, and stability was secured only by excessive thickness in the piers and clearstory walls, and by bringing down the main vault as near to the side-aisle roofs as possible.
To resist the thrust of the main vault, the clearstory was sometimes suppressed, the side aisle carried up in two stories forming galleries, and rows of chapels added at the sides, their partitions forming buttresses.
Mere bull’s-eyes often served for clearstory windows, as in S.
Nearly the whole space above it was occupied in each bay by the vast clearstory window filled with simple but effective geometric tracery over slender mullions.
Externally two stories of the Corinthian order appear, the upper story being merely a screen to hide the clearstory and its buttresses.
The clearstory is low; the roof low--pitched and hardly visible from below.
In the Norman churches the pier-arches, triforium, and clearstory were practically equal.
Especially rich were the half-dome of the apse and the wall-space surrounding its arch and called the triumphal arch; next in decorative importance came the broad band of wall beneath the clearstory windows.
Thus the division of the nave into bays was accentuated, while at the same time the horizontal three-fold division of the height by a well-defined triforium between the pier-arches and clearstory began to be likewise emphasized.
In either case the clearstorywas suppressed--a fact which mattered little in the sunny southern provinces.
The capitals were lessened, and the glazed triforium united to the clearstory in a single composition.
Its pier arcade comprises one-third of the interior wall elevation; and the triforium and clearstory make up the other two-thirds--clearstory being double the height of triforium.
However, to obtain proper lighting by clearstory windows she sacrificed stability, and years later the Gothic builders had to add flying buttresses to prevent the collapse of the Romanesque churches.
Plain wall surfaces above the main arcade and around the triforium and clearstory add to its robust aspect.
By 1504 theclearstory windows of the nave were all in place.
Those oculi were done away with during the XIII century, when the clearstory windows were lengthened for the better lighting of the church.
There are Norman balustrades and a Norman interior passage below theclearstory lights.
The fourth clearstory window on the north excels in color harmony.
Two hundred years later another Tree of Jesse was made by Lyénin,[145] for the clearstory of the nave.
The clearstory and triforium of the nave are impressive in size and effect.
The =chancel= is dark owing to the small clearstory windows, the low outer north aisle, and the concealment of a south window by the organ.
The =north aisle= is lofty and has a clearstory of three windows over the arcade.
The clearstory windows in both transepts are similar in general design to those of the south clearstory of the nave but with variations suggesting a rather later date.
The north clearstory of the nave shows the original design while that of the choir and the south side of the nave belong to the fifteenth century as do the tower and the cruciform arrangement of the building.
The panelling beneath theclearstory is richer than that in the nave.
The clearstory was restored in 1861 "from sufficiently clear indications" in the remains of the original windows.
Below this are small windows with the lines of the old high-pitched roof visible above the present transept roofs, but in the nave and chancel the lines of the old roofs are now within the church, the clearstory having since been added.
Much was brought from the clearstory where six windows on the south and all save one on the north side still have panels made up of a mosaic of fragments with portions here and there of which the subject is intelligible.
There too we have a fourteenth-century arcade (but much simpler) with a fifteenth-century panelled wall and clearstory above, and the panelling comes down on to the backs of the arches in a similar though somewhat simpler manner.
Comparing these with the clearstory of Trinity nave (p.
It is interesting to compare the design of this clearstory with that of St. Michael's.
The high vault above the clearstory pushes against the uppermost flying buttresses.
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