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...
- tie beam to a rafter near a masonry wall. Purlin – A post supporting a purlin plate, may be plumb or leaning (canted). Hammer – An upright in a hammer beam...
- 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...
- 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...
- chief carpenter to King Richard II. One of his best known pieces is the hammer-beam roof at Westminster Hall, regarded as one of the greatest carpentry achievements...
- raised with new Perpendicular style clerestory windows and an exotic hammer-beam roof incorporating human-sized angels with outstretched wings. The years...
- a wide nave with mid-12th-century arches, and a 15th-century single hammer-beam roof supported by large gilded angels carrying the heraldic escutcheons...