A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1879)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 82
joining parts of the building (in contradistinction to theBlindstory, often called the Iriforium). In churches it ap-pears to have been adopted as a means of obtaining an in-crease of light in the body of the building; but the win-dows are not unfrequently so small that they serve thispurpose very… … Witney, c. 1450. Stanton St. Johns, c. 13r>0. in the Norman and in each of the later styles of Gothicarchitecture, in which the clear-story is an original feature;but many more instances occur in which it is evidentlya subsequent addition to the original design, especiallywhen the high-pitched…
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