The dark choir is Norman in the arcades and the stage above, with Early English clerestory and vaulting.
Wyatt shortened it by one bay, and the clerestory is his work.
The Decorated clerestorywas added during the reign of Edward III.
Above is a clerestory formed of round-headed lights resting on the string course.
The nave is 130 feet in length, having above the triforium a clerestory consisting of a magnificent arcade of lancets.
The Norman nave has clerestory windows, in one of which we espy some good pre-Reformation glass; and a flattish oak roof spans the whole.
The interior is large and spacious, the fine oak roof being borne upon Norman pillars and arches, while clerestory windows admit light from the southward wall.
The glazing of the clerestory is white, excepting in one of the bays.
Here they would meet in the afternoon hour as the light fell aslant sapphire and ruby, through the clerestory openings.
A broader and more generous string course runs, at the height of the capitals, across the wall surfaces between the upper clerestory and the lower arcades.
The glass in the rose of the north transept and in the eastern windows of the transept clerestory can hold its own beside that of the cathedrals of Paris and Amiens.
Above rises the clerestory in its early vigor, with comparatively small windows, consisting of two arches and a rose.
The upper surfacing is broken by a clerestory with exquisite, old stained glass.
The western entrance front is noble and dignified in its austere severity; probably as old as the clerestory of the nave, it is a grim sentinel from the first part of the fourteenth century.
Both triforium and clerestory are very fine, especially in the nave, where, although they have undergone alterations, these are less radical than in the Capilla Mayor.
The clerestory rises above, divided by marvelously slender shafts into six compartments and three cusped circles in the apex of the arch.
The three engaged pier columns facing the nave carry the transverse and diagonal groining ribs, while the wall ribs are met by shafts on each side of the clerestory windows.
The outer walls of the side aisles are formed by a blind arcade of five arches, surmounted by a projecting balcony or corridor and a clerestory subdivided by its tracery into four arches and three cusped circles.
The Capilla Mayor has both triforium and clerestory of exquisite early work.
Mohammedan influence had asserted itself in the triforium, which is divided by slender shafts into two windows terminating in horseshoe arches, while the clerestory consists of broad, round, arched openings.
The narrowest slits of windows from the centres of the radiating, apsidal chapels break the lower surfaces, while double flying buttresses meet, at the level of the triforium and above the clerestory windows, the thrusts of the upper walls.
Within the last five years twenty-two windows have been enriched with stained glass: eight in the Lantern or Central Tower; six in the South Clerestory of the Nave; one in the Apse; seven in the North Transept.
The Clerestory windows eastward of the Transepts offer the means of representing the "Glorious Company of the Apostles.
Notice the great height of the Nave, and the unusual extent to which the triforium and clerestoryproject above the noble vaulting of the aisles.
Observe the height and the delicate arches of the triforium, or pierced gallery of the second story, as well as the windows of the clerestory above it—the part of the nave which rises higher than the aisles, and opens freely to the exterior.
The windows in the clerestory above it, representing kings and queens, are almost all modern.
The arches of the first story are mostly round, but pointed in the apse; those of the clerestory are entirely Gothic.
The ugly stained glass in the windows of their clerestory contains illustrations of the reign of Louis Philippe, with extremely unpicturesque costumes of the period.
In the nave there are triforium openings in each bay, andclerestory windows above them.
The tower opens into the nave with a wide and lofty arch, carried up to the clerestory level, and the groined vault with large window below produces a good effect.
The triforium and clerestory are simple in design, and the aisles are vaulted and groined.
The clerestoryshafts are of trefoil section; the arches are all pointed, and contain first pointed mouldings.
The triforium consists of plain, chamfered, semicircular arches and jambs in three orders; the clerestory has simple pointed windows, moulded on sconsion, but without cusps.
The clerestory is probably designed in imitation of that of Glasgow Cathedral, and is divided into two pointed arches in each bay.
The western portion of the south aisle of the nave and the whole of the south clerestory are evidently portions of the restored church of the fifteenth century.
The clerestory windows are narrow and round arched, without any moulding, while the aisle windows are filled with the simplest tracery.
In the exterior of this portion of the choir the outside of the clerestorywindows is visible, being simple round-headed openings, with flat buttresses between them.
The clerestory is of Transition work, having one lofty stilted and pointed arch, and two smaller pointed arches in each bay.
At the clerestory level flying arches, similar to those on the north side, rested against the upper portions of buttresses and pinnacles introduced between the windows.
This is very amply illustrated in the windows in the choir clerestory at Tours.
The grisaille in theclerestory at Bourges is similar to the Salisbury work, but it is not possible to get near enough to it to make careful comparison.
The standing position is also much better suited to the foreshortened view which one necessarily gets of clerestory windows.
Figure and Canopy Windows (page 40) are more proper to the clerestory and triforium of a church, but they are not entirely confined to a far-off position.
Even in figure work, much might be done for clerestoryand other distant work, at all events, in pure mosaic glass.
In large clerestory figures and the like, masses of one colour occur, but they are made up of innumerable little bits of glass, by no means all of one shade of colour; whence the richness in tone.
This is most strikingly the case in the larger figures, sometimes considerably over lifesize, standing all in a row in the clerestorylights of some of the great French cathedrals.
In fact, delicate paint on distant clerestory glass is much ado about very little; and one cannot help thinking that plain glazing would there have answered all the purpose of the most delicately painted pattern work.
The tracery of the clerestorywindows is, of course, flamboyant; it was substituted for the original tracery during the first quarter of the fifteen hundreds.
The effect is not happy: each section of the blind story with the corresponding section of the clerestory above, seems to be one huge window with the lower part bricked up.
The pier arches of the nave are plain, with simple panel-like spandrils, the piers themselves supporting a very large clerestory and glazed triforium.
The vaulting of the chevet is terminated by figures of saints, which rest upon the shafts of the clerestory windows.
Internally the church is a mixed product of the Transition and Flamboyant architects; the large clerestory windows may have been rebuilt later when the vaulting was constructed.
It is also a very severe example, with a nave of round-headed pier arches, double-arcaded triforium and small clerestory lights.
The interior elevation of the bays is composed of three features--pier arches, a fine triforium with quatrefoil balustrade, and a rather smallclerestory with a passage-way crossing its base.
There is a large ambulatory over the aisles, "which are built up in two stories, both of them vaulted, and the upper vaulted aisle giving valuable abutment to the clerestory wall.
The vast area of clerestory and glazed triforium recalls the interior arrangement of Amiens.
The bays of the nave are modified in the choir by the pier arches being stilted, by a small triple-lighted triforium, and by more importance being given to the clerestory windows.
The clerestory has twin lights, with a rose in the head of the arch, as is seen in the Cathedral at Chartres.
The glass is both abundant and magnificent in the nave lights, and the enormous clerestory windows display it to the greatest possible advantage.
Mr Waller thinks it was "probable that all these windows were originally filled with glass of this kind, which is similar in general design to that in the upper tiers of the clerestory windows in the choir.
A slanting light through the south clerestory playing fitfully upon the lace-work of the north side of the choir, or the sturdy pillars of the ever-impressive nave, gives a charm that cannot be described.
The tracery of the windows in the clerestory is ascribed to Abbot Morwent, who rebuilt the west front.
The window, which corresponds admirably with the casing of the choir and the clerestory windows, consists of fourteen lights altogether, six forming the centre, with four on either side.
In the windows of the clerestory are to be seen some fragments of old glass.
To make the new clerestory the whole of the original Norman work over the arcade of the triforium was removed, with the exception of the jambs of the side-lights (which extended beyond the arches of the triforium) and the wall between them.
This Norman clerestory was altered at the same time that the roof of the nave was vaulted--viz.
The clerestory windows on the south side are filled with stamped quarries with central medallions and coloured borders, made after the model of remains of ancient painted glass.
Following the example of the lights in the east window, these clerestory windows have alternately red and blue backgrounds.
In the clerestory on the north side the windows have been restored by Clayton & Bell.
The windows in the clerestory tell the tale of a later time, probably that of Abbot Morwent.
In the choir the clerestory windows have four lights each; in the presbytery are triplets.
There would, beyond question, have been in each bay large triforium arches, each with a couple of subordinate arches; and a single window in the clerestory with a blank arch on each side.
The clerestory windows also on the south have different tracery.
Here both triforium and clerestory are in their original Norman condition.
The clerestory range has three arches, the central being the highest.
The triforium and clerestory ranges are almost identical with those in the nave.
Two flying buttresses rise from the corners of the nave and transept aisles to the corbel table of the clerestory range.
With the exception of the clerestory range, and, of course, the north transept, the first impression is not that of a Norman building.
This applies only to the windows in the aisle; those in the triforium are of three lights, similar to those removed from the aisle; and those in the clerestory are the original Norman, just as on the north side.
As the clerestory windows were not altered, the lean-to roof of the triforium was of course made much more flat than before.
The triforium is probably only in part Simeon's work; and the clerestory was almost certainly added by his successor.
This is also a good point from which to study the clerestoryas seen in choir and crossing.
The clerestorythroughout the nave, whether in the Early English bays to the west or the Norman bays to the east, is of the same character, having three pointed arches in each bay with a window on the outside of the middle one.
In the time of Juliana, who probably succeeded Mary, and was certainly abbess for about thirty years before her death in 1199, the transitional work in the clerestory of the nave was carried out.
Each clerestory bay on the north side has a window consisting of three arches, the central and wider one is glazed, the two others are blocked with stone.
The clerestory of the transept and also that of the choir bear a general likeness to that of the nave, but are of earlier date, the arcading having semicircular and not pointed arches.
By slow degrees the triforium was first reduced to a mere decorative feature, and then eliminated altogether, whilst the clerestory usurped its place in addition to its own.
The windows of the clerestory are sometimes arched, but oftener square-headed; and some large windows of the latter description nearly cover the sides of the clerestory walls of Chipping Norton Church, Oxfordshire.
Flying buttresses were sometimes used to strengthen the clerestory walls of large buildings, and have a light and elegant effect.
How are the piers of this style, which support the clerestory arches, distinguished from those of an earlier period?
Early English style of the thirteenth century; and these support pointed arches, over which and continued round the clerestory wall is an arcade of intersecting semicircular arches, and above these are round-headed windows.
The interior walls of churches are often completely covered with panel-work tracery, arched headed and foliated, from the clerestorywindows down to the mouldings of the arches below.
Of what description are the arches which separate the nave from the chancel and aisles, and sustain the clerestory walls?
In the third tier or clerestory were frequently arcades of three arches connected together, the middle one of which was higher and broader than the others: and all these three occupied a space only equal to the span of the lowest arch.
The lofty character of the clerestory above the gallery, and set somewhat farther back, is remarkable.
The clerestory windows are spherical triangles enclosing three circles with quatrefoil cusps; the form of these windows is somewhat rare, but similar windows are to be seen at Westminster, Hereford, Carlisle, and York.
Originally, as now, the aisle roof ascended so as to reach to just below the clerestory windows.
In Hollar's picture the upper portion of the triforium windows can be seen, so that they must have become practically a portion of the clerestory during this time.
The interior view is striking, the arches of the nave, triforium, andclerestory being in harmonious proportions.
The row of columns on the northern side of the nave have fallen, with the clerestory above them, but the remainder of the structure has suffered little damage.
The interior of the nave discloses stone vaulting and Decorated architecture, with large clerestory windows, but a small triforium.
The arcade, triforium, and clerestory are in fine proportion; the nave has a vaulted roof of stone, and the alternate columns are clustered in plan, their middle shafts extending from floor to roof.
It had no triforium, and the clerestory windows are rather large.
The aisles and clerestory windows are of the later decorated period of Gothic, and present, whether viewed from without or from within, an exceedingly fine appearance.
The natural attribute of such great dimension is a superb series of windows, a promise more than fulfilled by the three great rose windows and the lofty clerestory of nave and choir.
The clerestory of the nave consists of plain glass only; and on the triforium alone, of exceedingly graceful arcaded columns, depends the beauty of the upper ranges.
The whole mass of the clerestory throughout gives the effect of windows heavily hung with tapestries through which the outside light pierces in minute rays.
The clerestory of nave and choir is considerably later.
The interior plan is regular and simple, with a nave of five bays, the first two from the west being divided into the infrequent quadruple range of openings, while the remainder consist of the usual triforium and clerestory only.
This is plainly to be noted in the tracery of the lower and clerestory windows of nave and aisles.
Perhaps the best art to be noted is that found in the interior of the choir, with its fine triforium and clerestory windows above.
On the walls of the nave, beneath the low clerestory windows, are a series of four carven Renaissance marble panels, with other blanks suggesting the ultimate addition of similar sepulchral-looking ornaments.
The clerestory is excellent in detail, and the ring-post and ribbed roof is a change from the usual style of church roof.
The windows of the clerestory are numerous, and form the only medium of light and ventilation.
Large Corinthian columns and entablature support the roof; just above the cornice are semicircular clerestory lights, glazed in a fan-like manner.
The nave and aisles are surmounted by a heavy-looking but plain roof—without clerestory lights.
Six beautiful columns of alternate blocks of Bath stone and Portland divide the nave on each side from the aisles, and support an equal number of imposing Gothic arcades in Bath-stone, and clerestory of variegated brickwork.
Looking up the nave towards the latter, the effect is certainly very good, and the polished granite columns and carved stone caps surmounted by the lofty arcade and clerestory and simple roof together make up a very excellent interior.
Thrown from an open doorway in the clerestoryover St. Wrytha's Stair?
I saw him go up the inside stair to the clerestory gallery--he was looking about him.
Bryce looked over the tops of the yews and cypresses at the doorway in the clerestory to which Varner pointed--a low, open archway gained by the half-ruinous stair.
These latter are the largest of their kind the writer has ever seen; in fact, they are large enough to be placed in the clerestory of most cathedrals.
Thus the lone west window and the clerestory opening just above the nave roof combine to lower and contract that oldest part of the church.
A careful look at the nave clerestorywill reveal that in order to complete the set of seated kings a novel method was adopted.
The choir's four southerly clerestory windows each contains a large figure under a canopy of the time, the treatment varying in each case.
Nor are the windows in the clerestory any more worthy of notice than the twenty-nine which we shall find below surrounding the choir and filling the choir chapels--almost all complete and containing fine types of the medallion style.
Down upon us from their lofty station about the nave clerestory gleam these long rows of the royalties and ecclesiastical dignitaries of France, a marvellous exemplification of what colour in glass can accomplish.
Perhaps one might wish that they had been depicted in stronger hues, especially as they range about the clerestory on a white background, with white glass in the triforium windows below them.
So tall are the clerestory embrasures that generally only the middle portion of them contains personages, the upper and lower parts being filled with grisaille.
The clerestory lights of the choir are filled with attractive examples of grisaille enlivened by large geometric figures in points of red, blue, etc.
The only difference in the nave clerestory is that there each window is divided perpendicularly into three instead of two, the middle division in each case containing colour work and the two outside ones, grisaille.
Not only in the clerestory of choir and transepts, but also in the choir chapels below, do we find this treatment uniformly carried out.
He conceived and successfully carried out the daring scheme of converting the seven huge windows of the apse into arcades, whilst at the same time retaining the ancient triforium and clerestory above them.
The ancient stained-glass windows were at this time removed from the clerestory of the choir and replaced by white glass, and there were no less than thirteen of them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clerestory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clerestory; flat; floor; level; roof; rooftop; story; surface; topside
