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A hammer-beam is a form of timber roof truss, allowing a hammerbeam roof to span greater than the length of any individual piece of timber.In place of a normal tie beam spanning the entire width of the roof, short beams – the hammer beams – are supported by curved braces from the wall, and hammer posts or arch-braces are built on top to support the rafters and typically a collar beam.
Hugh Herland (c. 1330 – c. 1411) was a 14th-century medieval English carpenter. [1] He was the chief carpenter to King Richard II. [2]One of his best known pieces is the hammer-beam roof at Westminster Hall, regarded as one of the greatest carpentry achievements of the time.
The hammerbeam roof of Westminster Hall in London, designed by Hugh Herland and installed between 1395 and 1399, was the largest timber-roofed space in medieval Europe, spanning a distance of just over 20 metres (66 ft). [14] It is considered to be the best example of a hammer-beam truss in England. [15]
There are 118 decoratively-carved angels, all made from oak, on the double-hammer beam roof in the Grade I listed church [Mike Daines] ... The medieval marvel few people know. St Wendreda's Church ...
The roof was commissioned for Richard II in 1393 and built by the royal carpenter, Hugh Herland. [2] It is the largest clearspan medieval roof in England, measuring 20.7 by 73.2 metres (68 by 240 ft). [3] [4] At the same time the rest of the hall was remodelled by the master mason Henry Yevele. [5]
Working with hand axes to fashion hundreds of tons of oak beams for the framework of Notre Dame's new roof has, for them, been like rewinding time. “It’s a little mind-bending sometimes," says Pe
The building is made up of a small medieval church and a large Victorian extension designed by William Butterfield in 1872. [2]The original nave (now the north aisle) has a medieval single hammer beam roof, with moulded wall plates, angels with shields at the ends of the hammer beams, and figures underneath. [3]
The hammer beam roof was the first example of a medieval style open timber roof in a NSW Church and the building as a whole is only existing example of a reasonably intact late 1830s Gothic Revival rural Anglican parish Church in the State. Most of the Church has not been drastically altered, a fact which makes it unique among Anglican Churches.