Clerestory

Brittainy (friend; future roommate; future RA) and I were kicking around ideas for the wing...

There's a great book called What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, which tells you just about everything you want to know, in a general way, about England in the Austen and Dickens periods. What makes it even more delightful is the fact that this author takes examples straight from literary works, at a rate of about a quotation per page. He uses Walpole and others besides the Austen/Dickens duo.

In the glossary of this book, I discovered two things. First of all, "clerestory." This is a word for the row of transparent windows high up in a cathedral nave, which shed light from above and illuminate the ulterior spaces. Guess what? Our wing is a second-floor wing. Hence, Clerestory.

The other item of interest is a phenomenon called "The Inns of Court." Apparently there are four Inns grouped near and/or around the English version of the Supreme Court. These Inns--Grey's Inn, Lincoln's Inn, Middle Temple, and Inner Temple--were the "dorms" for medieval law students.

Guess what? There are four dorm rooms in our wing.

Hence I give you, in all it's loveliness (and with much gratitude to Danya for whipping up the graphic)...

And Brittainy likes it, too! Now, if we can just get the rest of the wing to agree... <:0)