The Great Hall of the Bishop's Palace at Hereford
C. A. Ralegh Radford|E. M. Jope|J. W. Tonkin
CAREFUL examination of the horizontal beams above arches framing arcades 12th-century great hall bishop's palace at Hereford has brought to light additional structural evidence shewing that hall, as originally built, had a clerestory and separate pent-roofs over aisles. The proposed reconstruction is discussed with reference surviving but incomplete examples same date Leicester Farnham, where for architectural form inconclusive. It compared earlier illustrations, including those in Bayeux Tapestry. churches late 10th 11th-century transverse (diaphragm) also adduced.
Medieval Archaeology