clerestory window
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window
noun
uk/ˈwɪn.dəʊ/us/ˈwɪn.doʊ/
a space usually filled with glass in the wall of a building or in a vehicle, to allow light and air in and to allow people inside the building to ...
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Examplesofclerestory window
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Hearth at left with highclerestorywindowover.
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There is only one small,clerestorywindowwhich enables direct access to sunlight.
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This motif has been incorporated as a recurrent theme into the lancet windows and into the leaded ovalclerestorywindowabove the porch way.
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Most of the windows are four-over-four double-hung sash windows with wooden frames, the exception being aclerestorywindowon the north wall.
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Of the three large east-west oriented halls behind the verandh, each measuring about 9.15m,6.1m, the 7.6m high lofty ceiling of the central hall has a glazed rectangularclerestorywindow.
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It added a wider and more complete roof structure, with the new front and rear portions supported by cables and joined together with aclerestorywindow.
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Whilst high mountedclerestorywindowand traditional skylights can introduce daylight in poorly oriented sections of a building, unwanted heat transfer may be hard to control.
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This occurs through the centre-pivot clerestory windows, by opening the doors to form a 'veranda' and by cross-ventilation from opening the living room window and the oriel window.
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As for lighting, it reckons that only a little extra lighting will be required and could come through the clerestory windows on each side.
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The brick walls of the ticket hall are punctuated with panels of clerestory windows and the structure is capped with a flat concrete slab roof.
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The central space has a coffered ceiling and is lit from above by clerestory windows on all four sides.
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It was lit by oriel windows in the reading alcoves supplemented by high clerestory windows along both sides.
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In the 16th century the church was added to with the insertion of clerestory windows which run the length of both nave and chancel.
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The northern side of the building has clerestory windows that allow indirect sunlight into the building.
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The clerestory windows have arched heads and contain rounded tracery.
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It has a monitor-style roof with clerestory windows, and entrances at the ends under roof overhangs.
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The bays have three-light aisle windows with rectilinear tracery and hoodmoulds, the clerestory windows have two-light flat-headed arches.
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The lighting in the interior is soft and indirect, from the clerestory windows and reflecting off the whitewashed walls of the chapels with projecting towers.
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Part of a blocked roundel window, above the east bay of the south arcade, is evidence of earlier circular 10th-century clerestory windows.
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Each side elevation has four bays with pairs of stained-glass clerestory windows; the bays are separated by piers.
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