Triforium
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TRIFORIUM, an architectural term, the origin of which is unknown but probably derived from "thoroughfarum," as it was used as a passage from one end of the building to the other. The derivation from Lat.
Triforium chamber: "This is the space between the vault of the aisles and a lean-to roof of sharp pitch which is constructed to protect the masonry of the vault from the weather" - Gothic Architecture in England, ...
Triforium is an architectural term often confused with tribune, but nevertheless quite different from it.
Triforium or triforium passage - A narrow passage in the thickness of the wall with arches opening onto the nave. It may occur at the level of the clerestory windows, or it may be located as a separate level below the clerestory.
TriforiumMiddle storey of a church interior treated as an arcaded wall passage or blind arcade, its height corresponding to that of the aisle roof.Triglyphs ...
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a galleried arcade at the second floor level, even with the aisle roof. Also called a "blind-storey", the triforium looks like a row of window frames without window openings.
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Triforium - The middle story, between the aisles and the clerestory, designed as a passage that is screened from the nave with an arcade of columns.
Trumeau - A pillar in the center of a Gothic portal.
Triforium: Space or passage above the nave arcade, below the clerestory, and extending over the ceiling or vaults of the side aisle (fig.6).
triforium In a church, a passage or gallery above the nave arcade and below the clerestory.
triforium: an arcaded passage in the wall of a church above the arcade and below the clerestorey.
triglyph: a vertically-grooved block separating metopes in a Doric frieze, possibly originally covering the ends of wooden roof beams.
Triforium
in Gothic architecture, part of the nave wall above the arcade and below the clerestory.
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- an arcaded wall passage, extending around a church between the ground floor arcade and the clerestory.
Triforium: A walled passageway opening with arcades which run along and above the Nave, below the Clerestory.
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Interior view from triforium, south transept
Interior view of choir
Interior view of crossing
Interior view of nave from Labyrinth
Interior view of nave from west end
Interior view of south ambulatory
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Other parts of interior elevations: arcade, gallery or tribune, triforium Cloister: Part of a monastery; a quadrangle surrounded by covered passages. It connects the domestic parts of the monastery with the church.
The interior order exhibits the defects of the imperfectly organized Norman system, particularly in the lofty, vaulted triforium or gallery, so great in size that there is no rhythm in the relationship of arcade, triforium and clerestory, ...
This additional story, known as the triforium, consists of a narrow passageway inserted in the wall beneath the windows of the clerestory (upper part of the nave of a church, containing windows) and above the large gallery over the side aisles.
Side elevations for Early Gothic was mostly quadripartite elevation, with four stories of windows and levels, labeled the nave arcade, gallery, triforium, and clerestory.
Nave elevation: nave arcade, triforium, and clerestory. Note the use of pilaster forms to articulate the divisions in the triforium and clerestory.
St. Lazare at Autun: built between 1120 and 1146.
Triforium - An arcaded gallery above nave, choir, or transept arches of a church.
Truncate - To cut the top or end off, to lop, to maim.
Truss - Individual section of supportive framework bridging a space.
Amiens Cathedral
The cross section of the Amiens Cathedral. (E) triforium, (F) clerestory....
Uppermost storey standing above the aisle roof, pierced by windows, sometimes with a triforium beneath.
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Any row of windows that is above eye level and allows light into a room. This is also the term for the upper level of Gothic cathedrals above the triforium.
St. Denis - Paris - France (1122)
Hagia Sophia - Istanbul - Turkey (537) ...
clerestory: An upper story of a building with windows above adjacent roofs.
See also elevation. Other parts of interior elevations: arcade, gallery,triforium.
stele or stela, stoa, straining piece, strap work, stria, strigil, stylobate or stereobate, summer, taenia or (U.S.) tenia, tambour, tellamon, term, terminal, or terminus, torus or tore, tracery, transept, traverse, trefoil, tribune, triforium, ...
triforium Section of nave wall above the main arcade trifoil or trefoil Ornamental tracery in the form of a flower with three symmetrical petals. trumeau Central pier in a doorway, sometimes decorated with sculptures.
 See also: Church, Arcade, Nave, Choir, Gallery
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