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How do I know if I am liable for chancel repair? What does Presbytery mean in the Bible? Does chancel repair liability still exist? This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. More info. OK, understood. 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, by Francis Bond [ book with many illustrations].
Arcade windows. I n church architecture, an arcaded gallery above the arches of the nave. In the interiors of medieval churches each bay of the nave wall customarily had three divisions in its height:. The triforium was thus located beneath the clerestory windows and above the side-aisle vaults and corresponded on the exterior to the lean-to roof over the aisle. In Italian basilical churche s this interior surface was generally decorated with paintings or mosaics.
In the north the triforium had arched openings with apertures in the wall behind it to ventilate the roof space over the aisle. In most Romanesque churches it appeared as a second-story vaulted gallery over the aisle and was equal to it in depth and sometimes also in height.
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