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How to use triforium in a sentence

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A vast white room, it was, with a wide, white triforium lined with white canvas mattresses.
It's a balustraded eyrie in the triforium, the narrow gallery 60 feet above the ground.
The church has been altered to form an auditorium with partly raked seating in the nave and exhibition spaces in the aisles and triforium.
The triforium zone of the basilica features a cycle of over thirty frescoes of the life and legend of Peter, executed in about 1300 and credited to Deodato Orlandi.
By the end of the 13th century the triforium was usually replaced by greatly heightened clerestory windows.
Together with these characteristics, there is also the triforium, with its galleries above the side naves, surrounding the entire cathedral.
A triforium stands above the transept and the east side, which, on the exterior have six defensive round towers as buttresses.
Another important element is the triforium, of great dimensions, that served as shelter for pilgrims and as a meeting place for the pious people.
The combination of the triforium gallery and clerestory into one large glazed area had, of course, a unifying effect on the elevations.
Inside the cathedral shows the sign of the new way of mature Gothic design such as the triforium of the choir, which was glazed with stained glass.
Here, the desire for dramatic tension is exploited to good effect, since the figures a series of lay founders in contemporary costume are given a realistic place in the architecture, alongside a triforium gallery.
The light inside the cathedral is also exceptional owing to the extremely high vaults, the large number of openings, and the glazed triforium above the choir and transept.
Originally the triforium of the nave as well as the choir was to be fitted by stained glass, but it was eventually walled for structural reasons, owing to the 3m increase in the height of the nave.
A project that is proceeding is the creation of The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries in the medieval triforium of the abbey.
Salisbury has a similar lack of verticals while the course below the triforium and the undecorated capitals of Purbeck stone create strong visual horizontals.
Pat also took up bee-keeping and fly-fishing and became a volunteer at Winchester Cathedral, working in both the Triforium Gallery and the treasury.
Examples from Classical Literature
On the south side the westernmost Perpendicular bay, up to the triforium, is solid and covered with cinquefoil panelling.
The triforium arches in the choir of the cathedral are all of this description.
The church is Romanesque and dark with a lofty clerestory but no triforium.
The clearstory and triforium of the nave are impressive in size and effect.
There is no triforium, its position being taken throughout the church by corbel tables in the form of human and animal faces.
The tympana of the choir triforium arches are filled with plate tracery, quatrefoil and cusped.
The capitals of the naves triforium are said to mark the culmination of Gothic art in foliate design.
There are also some in the south-east chapel of the triforium of the choir.
These galleries and arcades may be regarded as the original of the triforium.
The windows of the triforium are large and divided into four compartments.
There is no triforium, its place being occupied with panelling.
It is in the form of a circular apse, and has a triforium and clerestory.
Below the triforium a stringcourse of chevrons runs all along.
It had no triforium, and the clerestory windows are rather large.
There is no triforium, and the transepts do not project beyond the nave.
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