"Clerestory" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the third pillar from the west the descent of Christ into Hades, represented by a great dragon's jaw, is shown. Adam holding an apple, and followed by Eve and many other spirits, is shown coming to meet our Lord. Between the clerestory windows there are three paintings which seem to belong to a series associated with the Virgin Mary. The first, which may represent the Assumption, has not been restored, and very little remains to be seen. The second, ...
— The Evolution Of An English Town • Gordon Home
... aisles, all excavated out of the living rock. Six windows light the interior, the three in the flamboyant style already mentioned, and above, set back the whole length of the narthex under circular-headed arches, are three plain, round-headed windows, like a clerestory, opening into the nave and aisles, ...
— Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe • Sabine Baring-Gould
... lighting is by great clerestory windows - great windows at the north and the south ends - also ...
— Palaces and Courts of the Exposition • Juliet James |
