Roof

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View of the magnificent Elizabethan double hammerbeam oak roof spanning the hall.
Source: 

Paul MacLean

Image Date: 
2011
Textual Description: 
The roof has been described as follows: 'Though constructed on mediaeval lines, the detail is of Renaissance character and the mouldings of the main timbers are of classic form. At about midway between the floor and the wall-plate are moulded corbels surmounted by square panelled pedestals, from which rise the wall-posts and the curved lower hammer-braces; the mouldings of the lower hammer-beams are those of a classic entablature and the lower side-posts terminate in elaborate turned pendants with a square cap above, from the soffit of which hang smaller pendants at the angles...' (RCHM, <i>Inventory of Historical Monuments: London</i> 4.148).
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roof
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colour photograph