Only equally massive buttresses could support the massive hammer beams and arches of westminster hall.
Westminster hall hammer beam roof.
It concludes that the hammer beam carpentry was crucial to the roof s structure and that herland intended the hall s great arched ribs primarily as ornamental components.
The paper also places the westminster roof in the context of earlier hammer beam roofs particularly pilgrims hall winchester.
The span of westminster hall is 20 8 metres 68 ft.
Westminster hall served as the center of london s legal system hosting the courts of the king s bench common.
The magnificent hammer beam roof of westminster hall is the largest medieval timber roof in northern europe.
The roof of westminster hall 1395 1399 is a fine example of a hammerbeam roof.
4 in and the opening between the ends of the hammer beams 7 77 metres 25 ft.
The earliest remaining hammer beam roof is in pilgrims hall part of the winchester cathedral complex while the largest hammer beam roof appears in westminster hall at the parliament complex in.
Westminster hall s detail of hammer beam roof this is a close up of the hammer beam roof constructed by hugh herland in the late fourteenth century.
Measuring 20 7 by 73 2 metres 68 by 240 feet the roof was commissioned in 1393 by richard ii and is a masterpiece of design.