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32-506: The church stands on the site of an early church which dated from 1212, retaining its bell tower and two of its stained glass windows. In 1542 it was expanded by the addition of two extra aisles , constructed by Pietro and Antonio Laviola, two brothers who were later accused of murder in Mantua . The church is in the Romanesque - Renaissance style, with an angled roof, and is built in the shape of

64-632: A Latin cross , with three aisles. On the left and right there are small chapels, under which there are buried local important people. Each chapel has a statue by the sculptor Salvatore Sacquegna . The interior walls of the church are decorated with 18th-century pictures painted by Domenico Guarino , among which Our Lady of Mount Carmel , the Madonna del Pozzo , and the Mysteries of the Rosary are especially notable. From April 1939 and during World War II , Pisticci

96-465: A Roman basilica or of the nave of a Romanesque or Gothic church , the walls of which rise above the rooflines of the lower aisles and which are pierced with windows. Clerestories have been used in transportation vehicles to provide additional lighting, ventilation, or headroom. The technology of the clerestory appears to originate in Egyptian temples , where the lighting of the hall of columns

128-641: A central ridgepole . The clerestory was used in the Hellenistic architecture of classical antiquity . The Romans applied clerestories to basilicas of justice and to the basilica-like thermae and palaces. Early Christian churches and some Byzantine churches, particularly in Italy, are based closely on the Roman basilica, and maintained the form of a central nave flanked by lower aisles on each side. The nave and aisles are separated by columns or piers, above which rises

160-439: A dangerous area. Regulations applicable to public carriers transporting passengers often require aisles to be completely clear in vehicles, such as airlines, buses and trains. Many insurance companies have requirements regarding minimum aisle width, unrestricted aisles and easy access to exits, and will refuse to insure companies that do not meet their requirements or will increase the premiums on companies that frequently violate

192-435: A series of chapels, is a chevet . In Gothic architecture , the aisles' roofs are lower than that of the nave, allowing light to enter through clerestory windows. In Romanesque architecture , however, the roofs are at roughly equal heights, with those of the aisle being only slightly lower than that of the nave. In Germany, churches where the roofs of the aisles and nave are the same height, such as St. Stephen's, Vienna ,

224-571: A space, without compromising privacy. Factory buildings often are built with clerestory windows; modern housing designs sometimes include them as well. Modern clerestory windows may have another especially important role, besides daylighting and ventilation : they can be part of passive solar strategies, in very energy-efficient buildings ( passive houses and zero-energy buildings ). To that end, clerestories are used in conjunction with stone, brick, concrete, and other high-mass walls and floors, properly positioned to store solar heat gains during

256-501: A stage. Aisles also cross through shops , where they have shelving on either side; warehouses , flanked by storage pallets; and factories , where they separate different work areas. In health clubs , exercise equipment is normally arranged along aisles. They are distinguished from corridors, hallways, walkways , footpaths, pavements ( American English sidewalks ), trails, paths and open areas of buildings: aisles lie between other open or seating areas, which are all enclosed within

288-685: A structure. Spaces between buildings are not considered aisles, regardless of their size. The word is related to French aile (wing). Aisles have certain general physical characteristics: In architecture , an aisle is more specifically the wing of a house, or a lateral division of a large building. The earliest examples of aisles date back to the Roman times and can be found in the Basilica Ulpia (basilica of Trajan), which had double aisles on either side of its central area. The church of St. Peter's in Rome has

320-457: A wall pierced by clerestory windows. During the Romanesque period, many churches of the basilica form were constructed all over Europe. Many of these churches have wooden roofs with clerestories below them. Some Romanesque churches have barrel-vaulted ceilings with no clerestory. The development of the groin vault and ribbed vault made possible the insertion of clerestory windows. Initially

352-489: Is any feature that makes access or use of a building difficult, unreasonably dangerous or impossible. This can include aisles that are too narrow for easy access by a wheelchair . Often, the only way to get from a row of chairs, shelves, workstations, etc., to an exit is by an aisle. Historically, many deaths and serious injuries have occurred due to fire, inhalation of smoke or noxious fumes, etc., because blocked or partially blocked aisles prevented persons from promptly leaving

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384-403: The "stacks" area are called aisles and desks in the reading area are frequently arranged in rows with aisles. Server rooms are typically divided into hot and cold aisles for cooling efficiency, and access to servers. Films, stage plays and musical concerts ordinarily are presented in a darkened facility so the audience can see the presentation better. To improve safety, often the edges of

416-801: The US and assembled at Derby, where Pullman set up an assembly plant in conjunction with the Midland Railway , a predecessor of the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS). The first coach, a sleeping car named "Midland", was assembled and ready for trial-running in January 1874. The last clerestory-roofed trains on the London Underground were the 'Q' stock , which were withdrawn from operation in 1971. Clerestories were also used in early British double-decker buses , giving better ventilation and headroom in

448-762: The Wiesenkirche at Soest , St. Martin's, Landshut , and the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) in Munich are known as Hallenkirchen . When discussing overall design, architectural historians include the centrally-positioned nave in the number of aisles. Thus the original St Peter's Basilica in Rome, Milan Cathedral , Amiens Cathedral , Notre Dame de Paris and Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia are all described as having five aisles, meaning they have two side aisles either side of

480-473: The aisle. Sport stadiums and outdoor arenas frequently have several types of aisles, including aisles to purchase tickets for events, aisles to enter the main event area and aisles to go to seating. Stadium seating routinely is separated into sections by aisles. Seating rows are accessed by stairsteps. To promote safety, aisles commonly are divided by a handrail in the middle of the aisle. The floor plan of aisled barns resembles that of an aisled church. However,

512-403: The aisles in such facilities are marked with a row of small lights. The markers frequently are strings of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) because LEDs are durable, have low power consumption and use low voltages that are not subject to electrical codes . To provide a higher level of light focused downward, lighting fixtures referred to as luminaries are often built into the side of the seat facing

544-452: The designs of many railway passenger cars and trams Commonwealth English ) / streetcars ( American English & Canadian English ) from about 1860 to the 1930s. They increased the daylight and ventilation available to passengers. In the US, the railroad clerestory roof was also known as the "lantern roof". The first Pullman coaches in the UK had clerestory roofs. They were imported from

576-480: The end of food aisles may be found crown end displays , where high- margin goods are displayed for impulse purchase . In retail stores that do not primarily sell food, aisles containing products would be referred to either generically as merchandise aisles , or by the particular products contained in the aisle, e.g., "the gardening aisle", "the sports equipment aisle". Checkout aisles contain cash registers at which customers make their purchases. Regardless of

608-463: The hotter parts of the day – allowing the walls and the floor to act as a heat bank during the cooler parts of the day. Clerestories – in passive solar strategies – should be properly located (typically in the sunny side of the building) and protected from the summer's sun by rooflines, overhangs , recessed thick walls, or other architectural elements, in order to prevent overheating during the cooling season. Clerestory roofs were incorporated into

640-446: The nave in farm buildings is called an aisle thus a "three aisled barn". Aisled barns have the big barn doors on the gable end of the building giving access to the center aisle, often called the drive floor or threshing floor. The side aisles may be the same widths making the barn symmetrical or the aisle where animals were housed may be narrower which is apparent outside the barn because the barn doors are then off-center. The area between

672-414: The nave of a large aisled and clerestoried church was of two levels: arcade and clerestory. During the Romanesque period, a third level was inserted between them, a gallery called the " triforium ". The triforium generally opens into space beneath the sloping roof of the aisle. This became a standard feature of later Romanesque and Gothic large abbey and cathedral churches. Sometimes another gallery set into

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704-529: The nave. Antwerp Cathedral even has seven aisles (three at either side of the central nave). In the United Kingdom, cathedrals generally only have one aisle on each side, with Chichester Cathedral , Elgin Cathedral and St Mary Magdalene, Taunton being the only three exceptions. In supermarkets there are two types of aisles, food aisles and checkout aisles. Food aisles are where goods are displayed. At

736-688: The posts, perpendicular to the aisles are called bays. In stables there is a stable aisle down the centre with individual stalls facing the aisle. On vehicles, the aisle is more specifically a passageway for passengers to move along within the vehicle. National and local government regulations require a minimum width for aisles in various building types. Regulatory agencies frequently inspect buildings, vehicles, etc., to enforce regulations requiring that aisles not be restricted. Inspectors have imposed fines for blocking or restricting passage when boxes or folding chairs are stored in aisles, for example. Insurance companies frequently have safety inspectors to examine

768-422: The premises, both to determine whether insureds are complying with the insurer's requirements for coverage and to look for any practices that could lead to injury or property damage, including restricting passage in aisles. The Americans with Disabilities Act sets certain standards for building access and other design considerations in all new construction and major renovations in the U.S. An architectural barrier

800-432: The requirements. Clerestory In architecture , a clerestory ( / ˈ k l ɪər s t ɔːr i / KLEER -stor-ee ; lit.   ' clear storey ' , also clearstory , clearstorey , or overstorey ; from Old French cler estor ) is a high section of wall that contains windows above eye-level. Its purpose is to admit light, fresh air, or both. Historically, a clerestory formed an upper level of

832-500: The same number. In church architecture , an aisle (also known as an yle or alley ) is more specifically a passageway to either side of the nave that is separated from the nave by colonnades or arcades , a row of pillars or columns . Occasionally aisles stop at the transepts , but often aisles can be continued around the apse . Aisles are thus categorized as nave-aisles , transept-aisles or choir-aisles . A semi-circular choir with aisles continued around it, providing access to

864-467: 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. Modern clerestories often are defined as vertical windows, located on high walls, extending up from the roofline, designed to allow light and breezes into

896-721: The type of merchandise the establishment sells, it is common to display a range of "impulse buy" items along the checkout aisle, such as cold beverages, magazines, candy and batteries. These are often called "lanes" to distinguish them from the food aisles. For customer convenience, supermarkets and retail stores commonly number the aisles and have signs indicating both the aisle number and the types of products displayed in that aisle. Churches, courtrooms, legislatures, and meeting halls may identify individual rows, seats or sections but do not normally assign aisle numbers or display signs regarding aisles. Libraries are commonly divided into several areas: The spaces between rows of book shelves in

928-736: The wall space above the triforium and below the clerestory. This feature is found in some late Romanesque and early Gothic buildings in France. The oldest glass clerestory windows still in place are from the late eleventh century, found in Augsburg Cathedral in Bavaria , Germany. In smaller churches, clerestory windows may be trefoils or quatrefoils . In some Italian churches they are ocular . In most large churches, they are an important feature, both for beauty and for utility. The ribbed vaulting and flying buttresses of Gothic architecture concentrated

960-419: The weight and thrust of the roof, freeing wall-space for larger clerestory fenestration . Generally, in Gothic masterpieces, the clerestory is divided into 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

992-620: Was obtained over the stone roofs of the adjoining aisles, through gaps left in the vertical slabs of stone. Clerestories appeared in Egypt at least as early as the Amarna Period . Minoan palaces in Crete such as Knossos employed lightwells in addition to clerestories. According to the Hebrew Bible , Solomon's Temple featured clerestory windows made possible by the use of a tall, angled roof and

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1024-830: Was the site of a concentration camp considered the first in Fascist Italy . On 14 September 1943, the Special Air Service raided the camp and freed approximately 200 prisoners captive there during Operation Speedwell . This Basilicata location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Aisle An aisle is a linear space for walking with rows of non-walking spaces on both sides. Aisles with seating on both sides can be seen in airplanes, in buildings such as churches , cathedrals , synagogues , meeting halls , parliaments , courtrooms , theatres , and in long passenger vehicles. An aisle floor may be level or, as in theatres, sloping upward from

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