Unit 4 - Interior Elevations


 

01 Bottom Storey: Arcade 

02 Bottom Storey: Colonnade 

03 Middle Storey: Gallery

04 Middle Storey: Triforium 

05 Top Storey: Clerestory 
THE TWO-STOREY ELEVATION:  COLONNADE, CLERESTORY COLONNADE, CLERESTORY

06-Colonnade, clerestorey

Rome, Sta Maria Maggiore

detail
THE TWO-STOREY ELEVATION: ARCADE, CLERESTORY ARCADE, CLERESTORY ARCADE ON COLUMNS

10-arcade 

11 Rome-SSabina-interior 

12 detail 

13  detail

14 Ravenna Sant'Apollinare in Classe
THE TWO-STOREY ELEVATION ARCADE ON COMPOSITE PIERS,  CLERESTOREY (only partially visible beneath later roof) 1) ARCADE ON COMPOSITE PIERS AND 2) GALLERY (NO CLERESTOREY

15-Murano

16-Rome-Sta-Costanza

17-composite-pier 

18-St-Philiber-de-Grandlieu

19-Santiago-nave 
THE THREE-STOREY ELEVATION: ARCADE, TRIFORIUM, CLERESTORY TWO-STOREY ELEVATION: ARCADE ON ALTERNATING SUPPORTS, CLERESTORY

20-Reims nave

21-ALTERNATING SUPPORTS 

22 Hildesheim, St Michael

23 Hildesheim-plan 

24 Hildesheim 
Three stories: arcade with alternating supports, gallery (unvaulted), clerestory GALLERY: WIDE AS THE AISLE BENEATH Two stories: arcade on composite piers, gallery Two stories: arcade on composite piers, gallery Three stories: arcade on composite piers, gallery, clerestory

25 Gernrode 

26 GALLERY: vaulted in Romanesque and Early Gothic 

27 Santiago-nave 

28 Conques nave

29 Mont-St-Michel
Arcade, gallery (cf. 36) Arcade, gallery, triforium passage at clerestory level Arcade, gallery, triforium passage at clerestory level Arcade, blind arches, triforium passage at clerestory level

30 Soissons

31 triforium 

31-Winchester-elevation2.j copy 

32 Caen-StEtienne 

33 Caen La Trinite 
Arcade, gallery, blind arches, clerestory Arcade, gallery, triforium, clerestory (cf. 30) Exterior buttresses replace gallery in High Gothic Two sets of three-storey elevations: arcade, triforium, clerestory (repeated in the inner aisle) Three story elevation: arcade, glazed triforium, clerestory

34 Noyon

36 Soissons

37 Bourges 

38 S-Denis-Interior 

39 Châlons-sur-Marne Cathedral

40 Alençon 

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