Illustrated Architecture Dictionary - INDEX

Clerestory / Clearstory / Clearstorey
CLEAR storee
AKA overstory

An upper story row of windows; part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light

Found in an upper level of a Roman basilica or of the nave of a Romansesque or Gothic church

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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
  
  
• St. John the Evangelist RC Church
  
  
• Our Lady of Victory RC Basilica

Other examples:

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

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