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 37
owever the earliest of which we possess any record, and though but a solitary instance, we may fairly adduce it as satisfactory evidence of the correctness of our supposition. To illustrate further our hypothesis of Roof over Nave of St. Mary the Virgin's, Pulha.m, Norfolk. the origin of… … Roof over Nave of Tunstead Church, Norfolk. until quite the end of the fourteenth century, and indeed, were not in general use until late in the fifteenth. * * Early roofs of this description differ from the later ones in the thickness of their curved braces. In the former they are generally of the…
Roofs · Architecture, Medieval · Roofs, Open-timbered · Church architecture
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