A Romanesque Roof at Odda's Chapel, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire?

Timbers removed from the nave of the chapel in 1965, together with earlier photographs and traces in the surviving masonry, provide evidence of a rafter roof with a tie-beam, and probably a king-post and raking struts, at each couple. Later alterations to it are discussed in the light of what is kno...

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Veröffentlicht in:Antiquaries journal 1983-01, Vol.63 (1), p.58-63
1. Verfasser: Currie, C. R. J.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Timbers removed from the nave of the chapel in 1965, together with earlier photographs and traces in the surviving masonry, provide evidence of a rafter roof with a tie-beam, and probably a king-post and raking struts, at each couple. Later alterations to it are discussed in the light of what is known or can be deduced about the late- and post-medieval development of the farmhouse to which the chapel is attached. The alterations resulted in a roof largely seventeenth-century in form. It is shown, however, that the earlier timbers cannot be satisfactorily explained as post-medieval intrusions. The earlier design is compared with eleventh- and twelfth-century roofs known in north-west Europe. It was probably that of the original roof of 1056.
ISSN:0003-5815
1758-5309
DOI:10.1017/S0003581500014359