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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.
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There are 118 decoratively-carved angels, all made from oak, on the double-hammer beam roof. Some hold musical instruments and others represent saints, holding the symbols of their martyrdom.
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]
Orleigh Court is a late medieval manor house in the parish of Buckland Brewer about 4 miles (6.4 km) south-west of Bideford, North Devon, England.It is a two-storeyed building constructed from local slate stone and has a great hall with a hammer-beam roof, installed in the late 15th century.
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]
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