An introduction to English church architecture : from the eleventh to the sixteenth century (1913)
Bond, Francis, d. 1918 · London : H. Milford · leaf 367
pan or gable roof : if so, care is generally taken to keep it low. so as notto obstruct the clerestory. Aisle roofs may have tie-beams, as at Woolpit (812) ; ormay be arch-braced, as at Outwell, Norfolk ; rarely is there a hammer-beam roof,as at Hingham and Wymondham, Norfolk: the roof of the north… … K. H. c. Ewelme, Oxon. of Norway ; on the other hand the farmhouses and chalets of Norway and Switzer-land sometimes have roofs of low pitch, preferring to have the cold air kept out bya thick snow blanket, the weight of which is provided against by increasing thescantling of the timbers. The…
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