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    A hammerbeam roof is a decorative, open timber roof truss typical of English Gothic architecture and has been called "...the most spectacular endeavour...
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    England. Hammer beam trusses can have a single hammerbeam or multiple hammerbeams. A false hammerbeam roof (truss) has two definitions: 1) There is no hammer...
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    notable for its hammerbeam roof, a form typical of English Gothic architecture which uses horizontal trusses to span large distances. The roof was commissioned...
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    Temple Hall began in 1562 and was completed in the early 1570s. Its hammerbeam roof has been said to be the best in London. Queen Elizabeth I visited the...
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    and ceremonial funerals. The hall is particularly notable for its hammerbeam roof, a form typical of English Gothic architecture which uses horizontal...
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    for the roof. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) records the "exceptionally fine" hammerbeam roof which is...
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    residence, to which an Art Deco extension was added in the 1930s. The hammerbeam roof of the great hall is the third-largest of its type in England, and...
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    seated. It is 42 by 14.25 m (137.8 by 46.8 ft) across. The original hammerbeam roof was removed in 1800, along with the decorative crenellated parapet...
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    evident in the points rather than curves of the arches, and the mock-hammerbeam roof. Although the exterior of the north, east and south sides were completed...
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    renovate the medieval buildings and notably restore the Great Hall's hammerbeam roof. The influence of Rabindranath Tagore on Leonard Elmhirst, and the...
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