Boiteux Il ne faut pas clocher devant les boiteux = One must not remind people of their infirmities.
Il faut placer le clocher au milieu du village = What is meant for the benefit of all should be within reach of all.
Il n’a jamais perdu son clocher de vue = He has never been out of his parish.
What would correspond to the cathedrals of Noyon and Soissons and the old clocher and fleche of Chartres is lost.
Taken together with the fleches of the facade, this clocher of Coutances forms a group such as one very seldom sees.
The clocher at Senlis is more "habile"; it shows an effort to be clever, and offers a standard of comparison; but the mediaeval architects seem to have thought that none of them bore rivalry with Laon for technical skill.
The last of the Norman towers that Viollet-le-Duc insists upon is the so-called Clocher de Saint-Romain, the northern tower on the west front of the Cathedral of Rouen.
The cathedral of Coutances alone has preserved its central clocher of the thirteenth century, and even there it is not complete; its stone fleche is wanting.
The Southern Aspect] It is confusing that the north tower at Chartres façade should be called the clocher neuf because of its Flamboyant Gothic upper stories, for its lower Romanesque parts were built before the clocher vieux.
During the heyday of Gothic, the fervent layman gave voluntarily, asking for no return, and in that spirit rose the clocher vieux at Chartres.
The more closely the clocher vieux is analyzed, the more it becomes a touchstone by which will be judged other towers.
In consequence theclocher neuf is out of all proportion to its mate.
There are the two towers built in an hour of religious enthusiasm: the clocher vieux at Chartres and the belfry of St. Romain at Rouen.
The chapel is at the end of the northern gallery (eleventh and twelfth century), which runs from the base of the Clocher Neuf.
For in 1194, when Regnault de Mouçon was bishop, and when they were about to begin the spire of the Clocher Neuf, the Cathedral was destroyed by fire.
On the south angle of the Clocher Vieux there is an angel carrying a sun-dial, of whom one would gladly know more.
But an officer of the garrison, who was on guard in the Clocher Neuf espied this movement, and informed La Bourdaisière of it.
The watchmen installed in the Clocher Neuf were instructed to make the following signals:--On the first appearance of the enemy three strokes of the bell, three more if the enemy advanced towards the town.
It remains to close this chapter with a bald list of the subjects of the windows, taken in order, starting from the western front and moving round the Cathedral from the Clocher Neuf along the north or left-hand side.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clocher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
