hammer beam

The open roof of hammer-beam design, with pendants, is especially characteristic of the work of that period.

Timber roofs reached their highest development in what is known as the Hammer-beam roof.

The roof, which is of chestnut, is of hammer-beam construction, with moulded spandrel brackets and circular shafts.

The roof is an open timber structure of the hammer-beam type, typical of fourteenth-century work.

This was most probably a hammer-beam roof, and was coloured and gilded and decorated with angels holding shields.