Clerestory is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CLERESTORY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the upper storey of a church; windows near the roof of a building, also CLEARSTORY
• the upper part of the nave, choir, and transepts of a large church, containing a series of windows.
• a series of windows in another large building that are similar to those in a clerestory.
• a raised section of roof running down the centre of a railway carriage, with small windows or ventilators.
• The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.
• Same as Clearstory.
• part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light
• the upper storey of a church; windows near the roof of a building
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an outside wall of a room or building that rises above an adjoining roof and contains windows

Words related to CLERESTORY

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How to use CLERESTORY in a sentence

• The clerestory, with its Norman windows, is also intact on both sides of the nave, and between the columns are remains of the screen which once shut off the eastern aisle.
• 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.
• The ornamentation of the clerestory was completed in July, 1935, and that of the gallery unit below it in November, 1938.
• It might be that some windows could be placed at the base of the dome, so as to give the impression of a clerestory.
• Descending from this stage by a spiral staircase in the north-west angle, we find ourselves in the clerestory already mentioned.
• There can be little doubt that a parapet at one time ran along the tops of the clerestory walls, but this has disappeared.
• The roof and Norman clerestory were damaged by the falling tower in 1361, but were rebuilt by Bishop Percy, 1355-69.
• A small enriched shaft in the clerestory of the north transept is here illustrated.
• In 1875 it was discovered that the south-west clerestory was beginning to crumble away.
• The clerestory windows are Decorated ones of three lights each, the tracery being different in the different windows.
• The open galleries in each transept are connected by a passage with the clerestory.
• The outer walls of the clerestory, and the pinnacles of the south side of the nave show vestiges of flying buttresses.
• Inside, whether by a lucky chance or not, this screen, by darkening the clerestory windows, has greatly added to the effect of the wall of glass at the east end.
• Their side windows are like those of the clerestory.
• These are all examples of Early English work, but in the nave of Lichfield, which is Decorated, the triforium is still far more prominent than the clerestory.
• Indeed, it would be altogether impossible to combine a vault with such a clerestory as is found in these transepts, for a vault is a roof designed to fit a pointed arch.
• The clerestory shafts in the aisle of the north transept are bolder than in the south, and the capitals, especially on the east side, are more elaborate and beautiful.
• Here, as in the clerestory, the mouldings are delicately varied.
• All the other ranges of arcades, except those at the level of the clerestory, are blocked.
• On this side the transept is lighted from the clerestory by two Norman windows.

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