Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press · leaf 206
soften hung up by a king-post to the ridge. The roof of the hall at Eltham Palace (Fig. 175) Eithamis a fine example of this construction, and unfortunately rooT^also of its defects. The common history of hammer-beam roofs is that the hammer-beam drops under the explain that in the Roof C every… … bo CH. xxi] ENGLISH PERPENDICULAR 127 load at G (Fig. 174E), and the principal bends at the Eitham P3.I3.CG point H which is the hinge\ This of course involves a roofdisturbance of the wall, and often, as at Eitham, thefracture of the corbel on which the wall timber rests.A hammer-beam roof really…
Architecture, Gothic
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