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ˈhammer-beam Arch. A short beam projecting from the wall at the foot of a principal rafter in a roof, in place of a tie-beam.1823 in P. Nicholson Pract. Build. Gloss. 1843 Ecclesiologist II. 57 The wallpieces, spandrils and hammer-beams are plain. 1876 Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss., Hammer Beam, a be...
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Hammerbeam roof
Design
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. References
Further reading
Lynn Towery Courtenay, English Royal Carpentry in the Late Middle Ages: The Hammer-beam Roof.
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Timber roof truss
It is considered to be the best example of a hammer-beam truss in England.
Hammer beam trusses can have a single hammerbeam or multiple hammerbeams. 2)The hammer beam joins into the hammer post instead of the hammer post landing on the hammer beam.
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Hugh Herland
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.
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Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire
It has a wide nave with mid-12th-century arches, and a 15th-century single hammer-beam roof supported by large gilded angels carrying the heraldic escutcheons
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Pierson Building Center giant hammer
The hammer is a replica of a Vaughan claw hammer (No. D020) and stands 26 feet tall (30 feet overall including the concrete foundation). The octagon-shaped handle is made of real solid wood and is reinforced with a metal I-beam.
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Holy Trinity, Hulme
The hammer-beam roof was decorated with plaster angels painted to resemble wood. The church was considered a good composition by The Builder.
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Hunston, Suffolk
The nave roof is of good hammer-beam type, the restored chancel roof being copied from it.
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St Paul's Church, Peel
It has a hammer-beam roof and the wide chancel arch is supported on quatrefoil columns. The columns are made of Runcorn and Bath stone.
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Priory Cottages, Steventon
The building is constructed around a central courtyard and its mighty hammer-beam is of architectural interest.
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St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast
Internally there is a hammer-beam ceiling. most recent work has restored the Cathedral much nearer to its original appearance, especially in the use of strong and vibrant colours, on the fine hammer-beam
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Cavendish College, Cambridge
It features a hammer-beam roof, American walnut panelling, a gallery, rose windows and a flèche.
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St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
A hammer-beam ceiling contains dormers with stained-glass clerestory windows imported from Austria.
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St James' Church, East Cranmore
Many of the church's original fittings were carved from oak, including the open hammer-beam roof, open sittings, communion table, reading desk and pulpit
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First Congregational Church (Manistee, Michigan)
On the interior, the main sanctuary has a ceiling 60 feet high, supported with curved arches and hammer-beam trusses.
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