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 43
coloured all over, whereas the colour was only applied to the ornamental parts of the latter, such as the carvings and the more important mouldings, leaving the general ground-work the natural colour of the wood; and this was the most usual way of introducing colour in roofs, it being of rare… … length of the rafters, where it would most effec- tually counteract the strain of the wind acting on the slopes of the roof: this specimen shows the method of framing the braces at the apex of the arch, in roofs where the collar-beam was omitted, which is as follows; a strut hangs down from the…
Roofs · Architecture, Medieval · Roofs, Open-timbered · Church architecture
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