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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...nave of Higham Ferrers Church, Northamptonshire, is a wooden roof which apparently belongs to this era; it is acutely pointed, and open to the ridge piece, the walls are connected by horizontal tie beams, and these are strengthened beneath by two curved bracing ribs springing from stone corbels, and forming an arch. In the north transept of Andover Church, Hampshire, is a high-pitched roof open to the ridge piece; the framework consists of tie beams, with a collar above each, supported by plain braces with spandrels; these support the principal rafters and the purlins, which latter divide the sloping sides of the roof horizontally, and on which the common rafters rest; and in the lower division of the sloping sides of the roof are arched purlin braces, but these do not occur in the upper. St. Mary's Church, Leicester, has an early wooden roof of plain construction, but probably of this style; the walls are connected by bracing ribs supporting collars on which the purlins rest, and from each collar spring curved struts, which incline to the slope of the roof, and these serve to support the principal rafters. The roof of Adderbury Church, Oxfordshire, is an excellent specimen of the fourteenth century; the framing consists of moulded tie beams with square king posts, and struts or braces, which support the principal rafters and purlins; the spaces between the rafters, struts, and tie beams, are foliated; beneath the tie beams are curved bracing ribs with spandrels, which, with the wall pieces, spring from corbel heads, and longitudinal bracing ribs, disposed so as to form arches with foliated soffits, are carried from king post to king post. This roof is worthy of minute examination. The framework of the roof of the nave of Byfield Church, Northamptonshire, a...

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