Architecture and Landscaping:

clerestory, clearstory


overstorey

Upper parts of walls carried on arcades or colonnades in the nave, choir, or transepts of a church, rising higher than the lean-to roofs of the aisles and pierced with windows to allow light to penetrate.

 
 
 

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