The open timber roofs of the Middle Ages : illustrated by perspective and working drawings of some of the best varieties of church roofs : with descriptive letter-press (1849)
Brandon, Raphael, 1817-1877 author · London : David Bogue, 86 Fleet Street : Sold also by George Bell, 186 Fleet Street · leaf 32
uently almost flat, with no more rise to throw off the wet than could be obtained by the camber of the beams. These roofs were oftentimes profusely ornamented, as in that over the North Chapel of Wellingborough Church, Northamptonshire. In this instance the Eastern bay, as was very frequently the… … Roof over North Chapel, Wellingborough Church. * For an Illustration of this roof, see T. T. Bury's work on the " Remains of Ecclesiastical Architecture." London, J. Weale. f See " Northamptonshire Churches." Oxford, J. H. Parker.
Roofs · Architecture, Medieval · Roofs, Open-timbered · Church architecture
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