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Westminster Hall in the early 19th century A modern hammerbeam roof at Windsor Castle. Possibly the earliest hammer-beamed building still standing in England, built in about 1310 [8] and located in Winchester Cathedral Close, is the Pilgrims' Hall, now part of The Pilgrims' School.
The largest clearspan medieval roof in England, Westminster Hall's roof measures 20.7 by 73.2 metres (68 by 240 ft). [3] Oak timbers for the roof came from royal woods in Hampshire and from parks in Hertfordshire and from that of William Crozier of Stoke d'Abernon , who supplied over 600 oaks in Surrey , among other sources; they were assembled ...
Westminster Hall: City of Westminster, England 1097 [33] [34] Oldest existing part of the Palace of Westminster. The roof was possibly originally supported by pillars, giving three aisles, but during the reign of King Richard II, this was replaced by a hammerbeam roof in 1393. However, recent archaeological explorations found no evidence of ...
It measures 240ft (73.2m) long, 68ft (20.7m) wide and 92ft (28m) high. The roof was originally supported by two rows of pillars but in 1399 Richard II wanted to make the hall more impressive by ...
The hammerbeam roof was the culmination of the development of the arch-braced truss, allowing greater spaces to be spanned. 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 ...
The oldest existing roof of this kind is found in Winchester Cathedral. The most famous example of the Hammerbeam roof is the roof of Westminster Hall (1395), the largest timber roof of its time, built for royal ceremonies
In Richard II's expansion an exceptionally wide span hammerbeam roof was added, now considered a marvel of medieval engineering, while the Norman outer walls were retained with the addition of gothic windows. [18] Westminster Hall survives, having escaped the fire of 1834 which destroyed the majority of the medieval Palace of Westminster.
A feature of the Great Hall is the sloped roof, built in hammerbeam style to resemble that of Westminster Hall in London. [3] The arched design of the roof is supported by six collar cedar beams, and is architecturally reminiscent of such British interiors as those of Stirling Castle , Hampton Court and Etham Castle, all equally typical of ...