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What is a clerestory?

What is a clerestory? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (architecture) The upper part of a wall containing windows to let in natural light to a building, especially in the nave, transept and choir of a church or cathedral.
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Highlights of these volumes are the windows of the choir clerestory, and the tracery lights of various chapels and of the chapter house.
Light pours down at the ceremonial end from an unseen clerestory set into the roof where it steps up to offer nobility.
On one project, the heliodon helped the architects size the overhang on a cupola and observe the effects of clerestory windows on the spaces below.
Summer cross-ventilation can be obtained through opening lights in the glass wall and the motorized panes of the clerestory.
He provides a clerestory panel just below ceiling level, then adds a horizontal baffle internally.
The arcade has pointed, chamfered arches, supported on octagonal pillars, and there is a small clerestory.

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