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hammer beam
noun
- either of a pair of short horizontal beams that project from opposite walls to support arched braces and struts
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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.
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