clerestory Definition
clere·story (klir′stôr′ē)
clerestory Usage Examples
Converse of object
- have: All is vaulted in stone and the nave is tall enough to have had a clerestory, but there is blank wall here instead.
- form: In the fifteenth century the walls of the nave were raised to form a clerestory and the nave covered with a new low-pitched roof.
- raise: Even more unusual, the stubby tower hugs a later raised clerestory, quite out of keeping with each other.
- show: They show the clerestory ( above ) and aisle elevations in Bay 4. The different colors indicate the different stone types represented.
Adjective modifier
- pretty: The first impression is of the great swathe of 14th century aisle, with a pretty clerestory peeping above it.
- 15th: The wealth of those days built the church, particularly the fine 15th century clerestory and aisles.
- tall: The church is a large building comprising a five bay nave with aisles, a tall polygonal apse, and an exceptionally tall clerestory.
- perpendicular: Above them towers the Perpendicular clerestory, its windows picked out in brick.
- north: The church is perpendicular, the windows mostly modern and poor, and those of the north clerestory have carpenters ' frames.
- late: The twelfth-century arcade and triforium support a later clerestory and great hammer-beam roof dating from the fifteenth century.
Modifies a noun
- window: A few last rays of light still struck through the clerestory windows, resting upon capitals with stiff foliage.
- roof: It has not been possible to determine exactly why the decision to build stock with clerestory roofs was made.
- body: These are D & S etched brass NER clerestory body kits which were specially etched for him some years ago.
- level: One gargoyle at the west end and between the first and second bays a stair turret continues above the clerestory level.
- carriage: It was a one off replacement for an earlier clerestory carriage.
- coach: The Railroad Hotel survives and even contains a section of ( standard gage ) GWR clerestory coach.
Preposition: above
arcade: As tho transported from a French cathedral, light fills the clerestory above the north transept arcade.
Noun used with modifier
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