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Documents the structure of the world’s greatest timber buildings, and shows how the framer’s craft has evolved over the past 1,000 years.
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two edge pegs, ashlar pieces, four face pegs, spire scaffold, soffit spurs, side purlins, forelock bolts, scribed abutments, spurred shoulders, diminished haunch, soffit tenons, triforium roof, notched lap joints, tabled scarf, passing braces, storey posts, central tenons, scissor braces, date ascription, free tenons, rafter couples, collar purlin, base crucks, scroll mouldings, common joists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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This building is, in the present state of knowledge, unique in England. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
two edge pegs, ashlar pieces, four face pegs, spire scaffold, soffit spurs, side purlins, forelock bolts, scribed abutments, spurred shoulders, diminished haunch, soffit tenons, triforium roof, notched lap joints, tabled scarf, passing braces, storey posts, central tenons, scissor braces, date ascription, free tenons, rafter couples, collar purlin, base crucks, scroll mouldings, common joists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lincoln Cathedral, Wells Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, Lambeth Palace, Early English, Staple Inn, Waltham Abbey, Winchester Cathedral, Ely Cathedral, Holy Trinity, Priory Place, Royal Commission, Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral, Council Chamber, Bishop's Palace, Clere's Hall, Exeter Cathedral, King's College, Saffron Walden, Westminster Hall, Chipping Ongar, Coggeshall Abbey, Doe's Farmhouse New!
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