A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 80
Clear=Btacg. n Clear-story* or Clere-story, an upper story, or row ofwindows in a Gothic church rising well above the ad- … joining parts of the building Qin contradistinction to thelilindstory, often called the IHforium). In churches it ap-pears to have been adopted as a means of obtaining an in-crease of light in the tiody of th e building; but the win-dows are not unfrequently so small that they serve thispurpose…
