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  • "Triforium," in drawings and sections which any one can study who likes; its interest to us is that this arrangement in the choir was probably the experiment which proved a failure in Notre Dame at

    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

  • On the other hand, "Triforium" pure and simple implies arcading, and the above term is adopted from Fergusson as less open to exception. [

    Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock

  • "Triforium"), left little except the ground-plan unchanged.

    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

  • Wednesday afternoon Councilwoman Jan Perry will hold a news conference to announce the reopening of the Triforium at Fletcher Bowron Square.

    Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Wednesday 2006

  • Wednesday afternoon Councilwoman Jan Perry will hold a news conference to announce the reopening of the Triforium at Fletcher Bowron Square.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • They expressed anxiety to pay every honour to the memory of so distinguished a member of the Inn, and cordially assented to the request that a tablet should be placed in the Triforium, where one of white marble now stands, bearing the following fitting inscription, written by his friend, Mr. Phillimore, of the Oxford circuit: --

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

  • _Triforium_ or blind story -- the middle story of a large church, over the pier arches and under the clerestory windows; it is usually ornamented by an arcade, and fills the space formed by the necessary slope of the aisle roofs.

    Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story

  • We saw it all, admirably, from the Muniment Room, which is a sort of lower Triforium above the south Transept.

    Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

  • We saw it all, admirably, from the Muniment Room, which is a sort of lower Triforium above the south Transept.

    A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 Humphry Ward 1885

  • Where: Meet at downtown's Triforium sculpture (at Fletcher Bowron Square - at Temple and Main -- across from City Hall) ( greatlawalk.com )

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

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