Hammerbeam roof facts for kids

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Westminster Hall in the early 19th century

The restored new hammerbeam roof in the Great Hall at Stirling Castle.

Hammerbeam ceiling, carved in oak by Patrick Keely at St. Mary - St. Catherine of Siena Parish (Charlestown, MA).

Hammerbeam roof is a type of wooden roof found in architecture. It was used in the gothic era.

Images for kids

Illustration of a single hammer-beam truss. The collar-braces (c) join to the hammer posts on the bottom and collar beam on top. Chambers 1908
Interior of the Middle Temple hall and its double-hammerbeam roof
A modern hammerbeam roof at Windsor Castle
Hammerbeam used inside a modern timber frame residence
A false hammerbeam roof, Angel's roof, St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
A false hammerbeam roof in the Great Hall of Eltham Palace, England.
The hammerbeam elements in Bristol's Temple Meads station are purely decorative, not structural.
A false hammer-beam roof in the Dictionary of French Architecture from the 11th to the 16th Century (1856) by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
1870 arch-braced hammerbeam roof by Mallinson & Barber at the Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland, West Yorkshire
The ornamented pendants in the Great Hall of the Wills Memorial Building (University of Bristol), completed in 1925, bombed in 1940 and restored in the 1960s
Hampton Court's ornate hammerbeam roof in the Great Hall

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