Measuring 20 7 by 73 2 metres 68 by 240 feet the roof was commissioned in 1393 by richard ii and is a masterpiece of design.
Hammer beam roof westminster.
The span of westminster hall is 20 8 metres 68 ft.
The beams and the roof itself weigh a collective 836 tons with the timbers of the beams weighing 660 tons.
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Featured in this image are the arches that connect each hammer beam.
The roof of westminster hall 1395 1399 is a fine example of a hammerbeam roof.
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The paper also places the westminster roof in the context of earlier hammer beam roofs particularly pilgrims hall winchester.
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The design of westminster hall roof.
Description this is a close up of the hammer beam roof constructed by hugh herland in the late fourteenth century.
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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.
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