clerestory

noun

Etymology: From Middle English clerestory, from clere (“clear: light, lighted”) + story (“storey/story: level of a building”).

1. The upper part of a wall containing windows to let in natural light to a building, especially in the nave, transept and choir of a church or cathedral.

   “Following these signs, he beheld three or four men with bent bows, leaning from the clerestory gallery.”

   “On the Visby-Västerhejde Railway there is a steam car. [...] The upperworks consist of a short clerestory coach body with end platforms and the engine chimney protruding from the roof like a stovepipe.”