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  2. Hammerbeam roof - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Hugh Herland - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Timber roof truss - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. The story behind a church's 'stunning' angel roof - AOL

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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.

  6. St Mary at Stoke - Wikipedia

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    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 angels are Victorian replacements for those destroyed by iconoclasts. The church was visited by William Dowsing. There is a medieval piscina.

  7. Orleigh Court - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. St Mary's Church, Barnsley, Gloucestershire - Wikipedia

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    The roof is of stone slate with coped ... The stone pulpit dates from the late medieval period and is ... The four-bay hammer beam roof in the nave dates to the 19th ...

  9. Notre Dame's fire-ravaged roof rebuilt using medieval techniques

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    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