Definition of Hammer beam. Meaning of Hammer beam. Synonyms of Hammer beam

- short beams projecting from the wall on which the rafters land, essentially a tie beam which has the middle cut out. These short beams are called hammer-beams...
- There is no hammer post on the hammer beam as sometimes found in a type of arch brace truss or; 2)The hammer beam joins into the hammer post instead...
- stomach of a sheep or goat and tied with rope. Those recovered from the hammer-beam roof of Westminster Hall during a period of restoration in the 1920s...
- constructed an elaborately carved vaulted hammer-beam roof with carved angels terminating the hammer beams and stone saints as corbels. He designed a...
- architect Giles Downes, the new roof for St George's Hall is an example of a hammer-beam ceiling. The new chapel and adjoining cloisters were realigned to form...
- plumb or leaning (canted). Hammer – An upright in a hammer beam truss supported on the hammer beam in a hammerbeam roof. Ridge – A historic type of post and...
- raised with new Perpendicular style clerestory windows and an exotic hammer-beam roof incorporating human-sized angels with outstretched wings. The years...
- slightly jumbled order at Llanidloes. The hammer-beam roof is the most elaborate in Montgomeryshire. Hammer beams on carved spandrel-pieces support curved...
- life-size statues of kings were placed in niches on the walls, and the hammer-beam roof by the royal carpenter Hugh Herland, "the greatest creation of medieval...
- Connoisseurs. 40 (227): 76–84. JSTOR 861585. (subscription required) "The hammer-beam roof". UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 30 May 2011. Retrieved...