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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: ...of the roof horizontally, and on which the common raftera 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 fine structure in the Decorated style, is divided into bays by moulded tie beams, with a king post above each carried up to the ridge piece, which is large and moulded; the wallplates, purlins, and principal rafters are also moulded, the common rafters have hollow mouldings at the angles, the tie beams are sustained by upright wall pieces resting on plain corbels projecting from the walls, and are also propped by struts. The roof of the nave of Daglingworth Church, Gloucestershire, is very simple; it is high pitched and open to the rafters, there is no apparent ridge piece, but the rafters, which are suppo...

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