In one of the triforium windows is some glass which may perhaps be earlier even than this.
The pillars of the triforium and south transept are of Saxon work and are all that remains of the 8th century church built by King Offa.
Of the abbey church only the east piers of the central tower, a single east bay of both transepts withtriforium and clerestory, the south wall of the choir, part of the south nave aisle, and the chapel of St Mary remain.
The chancel (of seven bays) has a particularly beautiful triforium and the east window consists of a double tier of triple lancets, of the upper three the middle light is higher than the other two.
The nave is 130 feet in length, having above the triforium a clerestory consisting of a magnificent arcade of lancets.
The nave of eight bays is of exceptional length, being divided from its aisles by seven massive columns and having both triforium and clerestory.
From the graceful pointed arches, dividing the nave from the aisles, and surmounted by the triforium and clerestory, the eye falls on the choir, with its magnificent stone screen, and beyond this again to the dim and apsidal east end.
These windows come as a surprise in a land where churches are guarded from the sun, and often the open triforium and clearstory, as at Avila, are walled up later to darken the interior.
There is here no gallery set apart for the young men, as there frequently is in the triforium of an early German church.
This triforium consists only of a row of low, pointed openings supported by short pillars, variously ornamented.
The courses of stone above the base of the triforium are not by any means so smooth and well-proportioned as those beneath.
At the triforium base foliated brackets support vaulting shafts of three clustered columns.
Every style of architecture is represented in the interior from Early Norman to Late Perpendicular, and in the triforium of the north transept are to be seen some Saxon balusters and columns.
The pillars on the south side support a much decayed clerestory, but on the opposite side both the triforium and clerestory are in a fairly good state of preservation.
Ripon is the only cathedral that has glass in the triforium of the choir.
In these alterations to the choir here the Norman triforium had to be sacrificed; and those who wish to see on a larger scale what the original triforium was like must study that at Gloucester.
Of these the first is the archway which gives access to the south ambulatory, with a triangular window (of fourteenth century work) over it, occupying the position once taken by the arch of the triforium of the Norman choir.
Above the arches of the nave are small double round-headed openings into a very narrow triforium walk, which is vaulted, as at Gloucester, with a quadrantal arch.
The whole screen looks too low for its position, whether it be viewed from the west end or from the triforium of the choir at the east end.
Its roof shows traces of having been at one time elaborately painted with frescoes, and the room formerly communicated with the original Norman triforium of the choir.
The two western bays of the triforium are not alike.
In the south-east corner of the transept a staircase gives access to this chamber, and communicates with the triforium of the transept, the clerestory of the choir, the vaulting of the ambulatory as well as that of the tower.
This rose window occupies the space which originally was the west end of the original Norman triforium of the choir, to which access was given by the staircase in the north-east corner of the transept.
The Norman piers of the choir and presbytery and the Norman triforium of the choir are all there, though they are partly concealed by the later Perpendicular casing.
In most Norman buildings of large size, the Triforium forms a very important part of the design of the Interior.
Where the Triforium contains three orders of piers, the tertiary pier consists of a single shaft only, carrying the third order of arch-mouldings.
I think this triforium superior to that of St. Ouen, chiefly from the geometric character of its forms; whereas those of St. Ouen approach to the perpendicular.
In each bay of the nave the triforium has three smaller bays formed by most elegant colonnettes.
The triforium and its windows, especially of the choir; these windows commence on the east side of the transept.
Beautiful end of north transept, a decorated window below, an open triforium of eight lights, and a vast decorated window terminating in a great rosace above--stained glass.
There are seven bays of the nave, and seven round the apse--seven great rose windows over the vaulted triforium round the apse: many most beautiful windows of geometric tracery, with trefoils arranged in threes.
Two bays of the aisles equal one bay of the nave, and pilasters run up from the piers, dividing the triforium arches into groups of six, on the tops of which figures stand.
The triforium is of two round arches to each bay, with short coupled columns, now built up, and with wooden figures of the Apostles set in each arch.
The arches of the triforium are of similar style to those below.
The lower one in the triforium is an obituary window to the memory of the late Canon Thurlow, placed there by his friends.
The nave, which is 100 feet high, consists of six bays, with triforium and lofty clerestory.
There is no triforium in the choir, but only a pierced parapet under the clerestory windows, which are filled with fine early glass.
In Sant' Ambrogio the transverse and diagonal arches spring from just above the triforium floor, so that there was no room for clerestory windows, and consequently the interior is dark.
The aisles, being half the width of the nave, were divided into eight compartments, two to each bay of the nave, and were covered both in the ground storey and the triforium with intersecting groin vaults.
In the cathedral at Bari, as also in San Nicola, the lofty nave is covered with a timber roof, and has an arcade on the ground storey and a fine triforium and clerestory windows above.
There are notriforium galleries, and the clerestory is generally very insignificant.
Contemporary with this change is the gradual absorption of the triforiuminto the clerestory, of which Southwell and Pershore are precocious examples.
In San Michele the ribs rise from the level of the top of the triforium arcades and two clerestory windows are provided to each bay.
The triforium usually has a single wide semicircular arched opening, enclosing two or more minor semicircular arches springing from detached shafts.
Structurally also it possesses all the most characteristic features of the Gothic church, with nave arcades carried on compound piers, triforium and clerestory, vaulted throughout, and flying buttresses outside.
The abutting arches under the triforium roofs of the earlier churches were developed into flying buttresses above the roofs springing from buttresses of increased projection and weighted by pinnacles.
The beautiful foliaged bosses along the ridge rib are best seen from the triforium or the clerestory.
The last bay of the triforium on the west has four narrow arches of equal height, whereas the adjoining bay does not differ from that in the northern arm.
The style is the earliest Geometrical, of which the triforium and windows are among the best examples in the world.
The eastern bay of the triforium on each side is of simpler design than the rest.
One is at the height of the pier capitals, and the other on a level with the base of the triforium arcade.
The wall is pierced by openings similar to those of the triforium and clerestory, but they are unglazed, and through them we can see the windows of the outer wall.
The triforium is very similar to that of the choir.
Each bay of the triforium is divided, as elsewhere, into two arches, both of which enclose two sub-arches; but the details are richer than in the earlier parts of the minster.
In each bay of the triforium there are two arches, both divided into two sub-arches, with a solid tympanum pierced with a trefoil or quatrefoil.
The triforium is stunted, and consists merely of two pairs of small arches, above which the ribs of a noble fretted roof expand, so that it appears as if the roof were immediately supported by the columns of the nave.
The Norman nave is of eight bays with semicircular arches, surmounted by a triforium of rows of arches almost equal to those below, and rising from piers with clustered side-columns.
The nave is of great beauty, being separated from the aisles by massive semicircular arches, rich in general effect, with a triforium above consisting of a double arcade, making it worthy to compete with the finest naves in England.
One of the bays on the north side of the triforium is a beautiful minstrels' gallery, communicating with a chamber above the porch.
The triforium is almost as lofty as the nave-arches, and the solidity of these, surmounted by the grandeur of the upper arcade, gives a magnificent aspect to the nave.
Entering the fine southern porch, we are ushered into the splendid Norman nave bordered by exceptionally high piers, rising thirty feet, and surmounted by a low triforium and clerestory.
At home he could still find interest in watching the progress of the New Work, for the north aisle of the nave was being proceeded with and the pillars of the triforium above it were being put in their place.
The portion of the triforium above his window is also due to Henry III.
The triforium of the nave is the chief interior feature to be remarked, and is most spaciously planned.
The openings from the aisles to the nave are pointed, while above is an unpierced triforium with a clerestory of round-headed arches.
The nave and aisles of St. Quirinus are ample, and its spacious maennerchoere in the triforium is like all its fellows in the German churches, an adjunct which adds to the general effect of size.
The stone screens which surrounded the choir proper were demolished and the painted glass of the triforium mysteriously disappeared.
The triforium gallery is a charming feature, and has seldom been found so highly developed outside of an early Gothic church.
The Norman in Apulia could hardly fail to adopt the columnar forms of the land in which he was settled; but he could not bring himself to give up the threefold division of height and the bold triforium of his own land.
But the triforium itself, as it stands at Trani, might have been set up at Caen or Bayeux, with only the smallest changes in detail.
The triforium in the choir is filled with elegant perpendicular tracery.
In the choir, the triforiumis composed of tracery.
The triforium is similar in plan to the part below; but the capitals of the columns are considerably more enriched, with an obvious imitation of the antique model, and every arch encircles two smaller ones.
The triforium is composed of a tier of semi-circular arches, nearly of equal span with those below.
The east end is more dignified and has simpler factors, clerestory, triforium and pier arch.
It is also a very severe example, with a nave of round-headed pier arches, double-arcaded triforium and small clerestory lights.
The nave consists of bays having a high clerestory and a triforium screened by rich sixteenth century carving.
Probably this is a staircase leading to the upper passages of the triforium and clerestory.
The tympana of the choir triforiumarches are filled with plate tracery, quatrefoil and cusped.
The triforium passage is worked between the lower mullions of the windows, which are duplicated; but, as is pointed out by Mr. Bond, care was taken that the inner and the outer tracery of the windows should be different in pattern.
A low clerestory, with three lights, and a small triforium, whose base rakes with the main triforium of the church, form the upper members of the elevation.
Thus we see that upon the design of the triforium depends to a very great extent the effect of the light and shade of the interior of a great church.
The vast area of clerestory and glazed triforiumrecalls the interior arrangement of Amiens.
The vaulting and first stage of the choir aisles--or triforium ambulatory--were removed, the aisles being thereby doubled in height.
The windows are round-headed: the clerestory consists of single lights, and the triforium is a blind arcade.
Remains of 13th century stained glass are still to be seen in the triforium and the great window in the centre of the apse.
The gallery of the triforium was likewise torn open on the south side of the nave, while the chapels of St. John the Baptist (photo p.
The second gallery corresponds to thetriforium in the interior.
The belt of foliage below the triforium represents plants grown exclusively in Picardy, and is very finely executed.
The triforium has lost that importance which it had in the early Gothic edifices.
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.
Above the aisles may have run a triforium or gallery, set apart for the prayers of virgins and widows.
The apse is ablaze with colour, the triforiumof the choir glazed, chiefly in grisaille, and the delicate triforium of the nave is topped by huge lights of colour and grisaille, which are interrupted by hardly any framework of stone.
Here, for instance, in the nave, the blind triforium has not broken yet into one continuous window, as it was soon to do in the Church of S.
The arcading of the triforium varies in width and character in the nave, the choir, and the transepts and the apse.
The grisailles of the triforium were replaced in the early part of the nineteenth century by some glass painted in 1527 by Robert Pinaigrier, which had been saved from the adjacent Church of S.
Also the very rich and graceful triforium of the nave, and the later and still more delicate triforium of the choir, cannot fail to please.
The choir is thirteenth century, and possesses a triforium with a double gallery, surrounded by gothic arches supported by small columns, of which the capitals are extremely elegant.
The east window seemed very far off, a portion of it lost in the curve to the left, together with the beautiful gothic arches and double triforium of that side of the choir.
