Hammerbeam roof
late-medieval form of roof supported on horizontal beams (hammerbeams) projecting from the walls; it enabled the central span of the roof to be open
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Hammer-beam roof: consists of a series of trusses, repeated at intervals, and its object is to transmit the weight and thrust of the roof as low as possible in the supporting wall ...
Hammerbeam roof - In architecture, it is the name given to a Gothic open timber roof, of which the finest example is that over Westminster Hall (1395-1399).
Hammer-beam roof
One of the wonders of English late medieval carpentry. Hammer-beam roofs are highly decorative, and can span great widths. They are called after the hammer-beam - a horizontal beam projecting out from the wall.
A terminal to a hoodmould or label (projecting moulding above an arch or lintel) carved with a head.Helm roof ...
Metal Standing Seam Roof -- A roof composed of overlapping sections of metal such as copper-bearing steel or iron coated with a terne alloy of lead and tin.
Downpipe - vertical pipe which brings rainwater to ground level from roof gutters or waste water from hoppers.
The Palais des Papes in Avignon is the best complete large royal palace, with partial survivals in the great hall at the Palace of Westminster, London, an 11th-century hall renovated in the late 1300s with gothic windows and a wooden hammerbeam roof, ...
Hammerbeam roof - a hammerbeam is a horizontal timber projecting at wall head level towards the centre of the roofspace, like a tie beam without a central section.
Mansard roof
Dormer windows project like eyebrows from roof
Rounded cornices at top and base of roof
Brackets beneath the eaves, balconies, and bay windows
Many Second Empire homes also have these features: ...
through the roof, displaying in logical fashion the system of construction, and at the same time bringing the abutment above the springing of the vault, where the greatest thrust actually occurred, while permitting the lowering of the triforium roof ...
In about 1390 the largest of all medieval halls, that of London's Westminster Palace, was provided with a magnificent oaken hammer beam roof that furnished the prototype for numerous similar roofs in the parish churches of English towns.
 See also: Architecture, Church, House, Frame, Masonry
  
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