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- noun Plural form of
clearstory .
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Examples
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The graceful treatment of the windows of the nave and choir clearstories is shown in the illustration.
The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Frederick W. Woodhouse
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The deep panelling beneath the windows must have been carried out when the clearstories were constructed in the fifteenth century.
The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Frederick W. Woodhouse
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+ Meanwhile the increasing height of the clearstories and the use of double aisles compelled the bestowal of especial attention upon the buttressing.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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It was not till the second half of that century, however (1150-1200), that the flying buttress was combined with such vaults, so as to permit of high clearstories for the better lighting of the nave; and the problem of satisfactorily vaulting an oblong space with a groined vault was not solved until the following century.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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In the mosque of +Osman III. + (1755) the reverse change was effected; the mosque has no great apses, four clearstories filling the four arches under the dome, as also in several of the later and smaller mosques.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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They were basilicas in plan, with timber ceilings and high clearstories on columnar arcades.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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An early example of this tracery occurs in the cloisters of Salisbury (Fig. 132); others in the clearstories of the choirs of Lichfield, Lincoln, and Ely, the nave of York, and the chapter-houses mentioned above, where, indeed, it seems to have received its earliest development.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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The greatest and noblest of the Turkish mosques, the +Suleimaniyeh+, built in 1553 by Soliman the Magnificent, returned to the Byzantine combination of two half-domes with two clearstories (Fig. 89).
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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