Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Chartres Cathedral' has mentioned 'Clerestory' in the following places:
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| Contents 1 History 1.1 Earlier Cathedrals 1.2 Fire and reconstruction (1194xe2x80x931260) 1.3 Later modifications (13thxe2x80x9318th centuries) and the Coronation of Henry IV of France 1.4 French Revolution and 19th century 1.5 World War II 1.6 2009 restoration 1.7 Liturgy 2 Description 2.1 Statistics 2.2 Plan and elevation xe2x80x93 flying buttresses 3 The towers and clock 4 The Portals and their sculpture 4.1 West, or Royal Portal (12th century) 4.2 North transept portals (13th century) 4.3 South portal (13th century) 5 Angels and monsters 6 Nave and ambulatory 7 Stained glass windows 7.1 12th century windows 7.2 Rose windows 7.3 Windows in aisles and the choir ambulatory 7.4 Clerestory windows 7.4.1 Later windows 8 The Crypt (9thxe2x80x9311th century) 9 High Altar (18th century) 10 Choir wall (16th-18th centuries) 11 Labyrinth 12 Chapel of Piatus of Tournai, bishop's palace and gardens 13 Construction 14 Restoration 15 The School of Chartres 16 Social and economic context 17 Pilgrimages and the legend of the Sancta Camisa 18 Popular culture 19 Chartres Light Celebration 20 See also 21 References 22 Bibliography 23 External links | WIKI |
| At the same time, some of the stained glass in the clerestory was removed and replaced with grisaille windows, greatly increasing the light on the high altar in the center of the church. | WIKI |
| Chartres floorplan (1856) by Eugxc3xa8ne Viollet-le-Duc (1814xe2x80x931879) The elevation of the nave, showing the gallery on the ground level; the narrow triforium; and, on top, the windows of the clerestory Flying buttresses supporting the upper walls and counterbalancing the outward thrust of the vaulted ceiling, allowing thin walls and greater space for windows Flying buttresses seen from above The vaults of the roof, connected by stone ribs to the pillars below, combined with the flying buttresses outside make possible thinner walls, and the great height and large windows of the Cathedral | WIKI |
| The elevations of earlier Gothic cathedrals usually had four levels to give them solidity; an arcade of massive columns on the ground floor, supporting a wide arched tribune gallery or tribune, below a narrower arcade triforium; then, under the roof, the higher and thinner walls, or clerestory, where the windows were. | WIKI |
| This pier design, known as pilier cantonnxc3xa9, was strong, simple, and elegant, and permitted the large stained glass windows of the clerestory, or upper level. | WIKI |
| The architecture of the cathedral, with its innovative combination of rib vaults and flying buttresses, permitted the construction of much higher and thinner walls, particularly at the top clerestory level, allowing more and larger windows. | WIKI |
| Clerestory windows[edit] | WIKI |
| Because of their greater distance from the viewer, the windows in the clerestory generally adopt simpler, bolder designs. | WIKI |
| Whereas the lower windows in the nave arcades and the ambulatory consist of one simple lancet per bay, the clerestory windows are each made up of a pair of lancets with a plate-traceried rose window above. | WIKI |
| The nave and transept clerestory windows mainly depict saints and Old Testament prophets. | WIKI |
| [48] The nave high vaults were erected in the 1220s, the canons moved into their new stalls in 1221 under a temporary roof at the level of the clerestory, and the transept roses were erected over the next two decades. | WIKI |