Bohemia Village Voice

St Peters Clerestory.

The ‘clerestory’ at St Peter’s Church is being completely replaced. For ‘years and years’, cumulative damage by vandalism now means that ‘patch and mend’ is no longer an option and the windows will have to be completely remade. ‘The leadwork is damaged too much’ says Don Ray of St Peter’s Church. Total cost of the work is estimated to be in excess of £22,000. So, what exactly is a ‘clerestory’? Collins Dictionary defines ‘clerestory’ (or ‘clearstory’) as a fifteenth century word meaning ‘a row of windows in the upper part of the wall of a church that divides the nave from the aisle, set above the aisle roof’ or ‘the part of the wall in which these windows are set’.  Right.