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roof
roof overhead covering of a building with its framework support. Various methods of construction, such as are suited to different climates, have diversified exterior and interior architectural effects. A roof may be flat, as in hot, dry areas where the shedding of rain and snow does not present a p... Read more
Westminster Palace
Westminster Palace or Houses of Parliament, in Westminster, London. The present enormous structure, of Neo-Gothic design, was built (1840-60) by Sir Charles Barry to replace an aggregation of ancient buildings almost completely destroyed by fire in 1834. The complex served as a royal abode un... Read more
truss
truss in architecture and engineering, a supporting structure or framework composed of beams, girders, or rods commonly of steel or wood lying in a single plane. A truss usually takes the form of a triangle or combination of triangles, since this design ensures the greatest rigidity. Trusses are us... Read more
Elizabethan style
Elizabethan style , in architecture and the decorative arts, a transitional style of the English Renaissance, which took its name from Queen Elizabeth's reign (1558-1603). During this period many large manor houses were erected by the court nobility. The plans and facades tended more toward symmetry... Read more
mansard roof
mansard roof , type of roof, so named because it was frequently used by the French architect François Mansart . It was not devised by him but was used early in the 16th cent., as in portions of the palace of the Louvre designed by Pierre Lescot. It became particularly characteristic of Frenc... Read more
mansard roof
mansard roof , type of roof, so named because it was frequently used by the French architect François Mansart . It was not devised by him but was used early in the 16th cent., as in portions of the palace of the Louvre designed by Pierre Lescot. It became particularly characteristic of Frenc... Read more
J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger (Jerome David Salinger) , 1919-, American novelist and short-story writer, b. New York City. Salinger depicts the loneliness and frustration of individuals caught in a world of banalities and restricting conformity. His best-known work, The Catcher in the Rye (1951), is a picaresq... Read more
stoa
stoa , in ancient Greek architecture, an extended, roofed colonnade on a street or square. Early examples consisted of a simple open-fronted shed or porch with a roof sloping from the back wall to the row of columns along the front. Later stoas were often immense, running to two stories, each with a... Read more
colonnade
colonnade , a row of columns usually supporting a roof. Colonnades were popular with the Greeks and Romans, who employed them in the stoa and the portico ; they have continued to be used throughout the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and modern times. See column . ... Read more
gargoyle
gargoyle , waterspout used in medieval Europe to draw rainwater from church and cathedral roofs. Gargoyles were fashioned imaginatively in the form of human grotesques, beasts, and demonic spirits. This form of sculpture reached its peak in the Gothic period and declined with the introduction of lea... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "hammer-beam roof"

roof
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...diversified exterior and interior architectural effects. A roof may be flat, as in hot, dry areas where the shedding of...Modern structural materials and methods have made flat-roof construction practical in nearly any climate, with the...it is necessary to shed snow. Variations of the pitched roof are ... Read more
Westminster Palace
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the House of Lords. The Great Hall was built by William II at the end of the 11th cent. The superbly constructed hammer-beam roof spanning its width of 68 ft. (20.7 m), part of a subsequent rebuilding of the hall by Richard II, was the finest... Read more
Westminster hall
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...floods, seen coronation banquets, trials ( More , Charles I), and lyings-in-state ( Gladstone , Churchill ) under its hammer-beam roof, and is now linked to the House of Commons. A. S. Hargreaves Read more
Lambeth palace
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...hall. The chapel undercroft dates from Langton , the chapel itself originally from c. 1230. The great hall, with its hammer-beam roof, has an exterior rebuilt, possibly by Wren ( c. 1660–3), after destruction during the Commonwealth. From c... Read more
Elizabethan style
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...for the great manors. In the houses of lesser gentry and yeomen, construction in the Gothic style continued, with the use of half-timber construction, leaded windows, and hammer-beam roofs. Bibliography: See J. Buxton, Elizabethan Taste (1963). Read more

Dictionary entries related to "hammer-beam roof"

truss
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...middle of the collar; double-framed roof : with principals or principal...rafters divide the length of the roof into bays ; double hammer-beam : as a hammer-beam truss, but...carry the open structure of the roof;intermediate or secondary: truss... Read more
Baird, John
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Kincardineshire, 1855). He is remembered today primarily for his experiments with iron construction, including the cast-iron hammer-beam roof of the Argyle Arcade, Glasgow (1827–8), and the cast-iron fronted Gardner's Warehouse, 36 Jamaica Street... Read more
Blacket, Edmund Thomas
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...University of Sydney (1854–60), the great hall of which is based on Westminster Hall, London, complete with hammer-beam roof structure. He also designed St Paul's College at the University, again in the Gothic style, but he could turn his... Read more
Herland, Hugh
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...1384. In the 1390s he was engaged on building work at Westminster Hall, where he designed and built the outstanding hammer-beam roof, one of the greatest achievements of medieval carpentry. Herland may also have designed the ceiling of the Fitzalan... Read more

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(book review)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 7/1/2000; ; 323 words ; ...Brunelleschi's Dome at Florence, the dome of St. Peter's. Other papers are devoted to more particular matters -- the hammer-beam roof over Westminster Hall, iron reinforcement in the Louvre, John Smeaton's use of hydraulic cement in the Eddystone... Read more
Where in Mississippi is... Church Hill? (Small-Town Spotlight).
Magazine article from: Mississippi Magazine; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...architecture, with purist details like a functional hammer-beam roof and a paneled altar decorated with strapwork designs...two stories in height, one room in depth, with a shed roof, one-story front, and rear porches; a second story was... Read more
Historic hall to be torn down.
Newspaper article from: Lancashire Evening Post (Preston, England); 11/10/2006; 246 words ; ...Scarisbrick family, then the richest commoners in Britain. In its prime it boasted handcrafted fireplaces, panelling, a hammer beam roof and a minstrels' gallery in the main hall. The house was a public school for girls before becoming a 700-bed hospital... Read more
ENGLISH TOWNS: Two of the best towns to call home in Britain.
Newspaper article from: Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England); 9/12/2006; 683 words ; ...clock tower. > St Wendreda's Church, in Wimblington Road, which dates back to the 12th century, boasts a double hammer beam timber roof containing 120 carved angels. > A Market Cross (now called The Stone Cross), which was erected in the early 16th... Read more