An introduction to English church architecture : from the eleventh to the sixteenth century (1913)
Bond, Francis, d. 1918 · London : H. Milford · leaf 368
h of the roofs. With a covering of tiles orthatch, the roof had necessarily to be of steep pitch ; but, with lead, it could benearly flat, if desired. We may say that we began in Norman times with a Brandons Roofs, Plate 23. TKOi !<;( I ION l-kOM KAIiN «43 pitch of about 45°; and that in the… … F. H. c. Ewelme, Oxon. timber and add greatly to the weight that falls on the clerestory walls. So,thouj^h roofs of a fairly steep pitch never went out of use, there was anincreasing tendency to Hatten them ; a tendency strengthened by the designof roofs like that at Lavenham (808), in which the…
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