Illustrated Architecture Dictionary - INDEX

Clerestory / Clearstory
CLEAR storee

An upper story row of windows; a window so placed

Found in almost all styles of architecture

Commonly found in Romansesque Revival churches and Gothic Revival churches

See also Vocabulary: Churches

Examples from Buffalo architecture

• Illustration above: St. Francis Xavier Church
  
  
• St. Louis RC Church (exterior)
  
  
• St. Louis Church (interior)
  
  
• St. John's Grace Episcopal Church
  
  
• Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunciation
  
  
• Corpus Christi RC Church
  
  
• St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral

Other examples:

• Trinity Church, New York City
  
  
• St.-Denis Abbey, Paris, France

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