It uses reinforced posts curving slightly outward from the wall to support the weight.
Hammerbeam roof construction.
The hammer beam roof is the crowning achievement in english gothic architecture and open timber roof design.
A curved support brace is added under them.
When building a hammerbeam roof you use a series of short horizontal beams that go upward and inward.
The curved brace is important because it holds the.
Not a true truss the construction is similar to corbeled masonry see corbel in that each set of beams steps upward and inward by resting on the ones below by means of curved braces and struts.
A hammerbeam roof is a decorative open timber roof truss typical of english gothic architecture and has been called the most spectacular endeavour of the english medieval carpenter they are traditionally timber framed using short beams projecting from the wall on which the rafters land essentially a tie beam which has the middle cut out.