Upfloor
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Upfloor is a noun meaning (architecture) An upper storey, especially a gallery or arcade above the arches of the nave, choir, and transepts of a church.
Meaning
(architecture) An upper storey, especially a gallery or arcade above the arches of the nave, choir, and transepts of a church.
Example Sentences
[…] and, as the upfloor was used for the transaction of business, attended by many witnesses, we may suppose that it was a large, wide, lofty upper story, such as is found in many early Norman minsters.
At Westminster, a part of the shafts set about the columns support the arches and groinings of the ailes, while others in the cluster ascend the upfloors and sustain the munions of the vaulting of the nave.
Word Forms
- upfloors
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