Westminster Hammer Beam Roof
The paper also places the westminster roof in the context of earlier hammer beam roofs particularly pilgrims hall winchester.
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Featured in this image are the arches that connect each hammer beam. Description this is a close up of the hammer beam roof constructed by hugh herland in the late fourteenth century. Posted on august 6 2020 by sandra. The span of westminster hall is 20 8 metres 68 ft.
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The roof of westminster hall 1395 1399 is a fine example of a hammerbeam roof. It concludes that the hammer beam carpentry was crucial to the roof s structure and that herland intended the hall s great arched ribs primarily as ornamental components. The hammer beam roof is the crowning achievement in english gothic architecture and open timber roof design.