Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Two king post trusses linked to support a roof. Key:1: ridge beam, 2: purlins, 3: common rafters. This is an example of a "double roof" with principal rafters and common rafters. A timber roof truss is a structural framework of timbers designed to bridge the space above a room and to provide support for a roof.
A scissors truss is a kind of truss used primarily in buildings, in which the bottom chord members cross each other, connecting to the angled top chords at a point intermediate on the top chords' length, creating an appearance similar to an opened pair of scissors. Scissors trusses are used almost entirely in building construction to support a ...
The term is from the Latin word for ship. A cathedral is symbolically a ship bearing the people of God through the storms of life. In addition, the high wooden roof of a large church is similarly constructed to the hull of a ship. [25] [better source needed]
A team of carpenters vowed crowds Saturday while using medieval techniques to raise up — by hand — a 3-ton oak truss in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris as part of the church’s rebuild.
Gothic rib vault ceiling of the Saint-Séverin church in Paris Interior elevation view of a Gothic cathedral, with rib-vaulted roof highlighted. In architecture, a vault (French voûte, from Italian volta) is a self-supporting arched form, usually of stone or brick, serving to cover a space with a ceiling or roof.
The weight of the roof is thus supported by buttresses and columns, preventing downward and outward movement of the stave walls. [6] [7] The roof beams are supported by steeply angled scissor trusses that form an "X" shape with a narrow top span and a broader bottom span, tied by a bottom truss to prevent collapse. Additional support is given ...
Amiens Cathedral: 42.3 m (139 ft) [13] Amiens: France: 13 Seville Cathedral: 42 m (138 ft) [14] Seville: Spain: Ranked as largest medieval Gothic church 14 Metz Cathedral: 41.41 m (135.9 ft) Metz: France: Largest glass surface 15 St Bartholomew's Church: 41.15 m (135.0 ft) [15] Brighton: United Kingdom: Highest nave in the UK, not vaulted ...
Also demarcating the six internal bays are a number of heavy, dark stained timber, scissor roof trusses. They are supported on white painted concrete corbels with simple mouldings. The ceiling of the church is lined with stained pine rafters. Between the rafters are infill panels of timber based board, like an early coarse particle board.