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===Gothic period=== [[File:Cathedrale d'Amiens - Grandes verrieres et voutes de la nef.jpg|thumb|220px|left|upright|The clerestory of [[Amiens Cathedral]] in northern France]] In smaller churches, clerestory windows may be [[trefoil]]s or [[quatrefoil]]s. In some Italian churches they are [[Rose Window#Oculi|ocular]]. In most large churches, they are an important feature, both for beauty and for utility. The [[ribbed vault]]ing and [[flying buttress]]es of Gothic architecture concentrated the weight and thrust of the roof, freeing wall-space for larger clerestory [[Fenestration (architecture)|fenestration]]. Generally, in Gothic masterpieces, the clerestory is divided into [[bay (architecture)|bays]] by the vaulting shafts that continue the same tall columns that form the arcade separating the aisles from the nave. The tendency from the early Romanesque period to the late Gothic period was for the clerestory level to become progressively taller and the size of the windows to get proportionally larger in relation to wall surface, emerging in works such as the Gothic architecture of [[Amiens Cathedral]] or [[Westminster Abbey]], where their clerestories account for nearly a third of the height of the interior.<ref name="Simpson1922">{{cite book|last=Simpson|first=Frederick Moore|title=History of Architectural Development|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8MFCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA273|year=1922|publisher=Longmans, Green, and Company|page=273}}</ref>
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