. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. he collars 1), are supposedby him to exercise a favouiable eHect in pre-venting the flexure of the rafter outwards, whereast!ie fact would seem to be that the brace lias to holdup the collar D and with it tlie stirrup B, and witl;them the tie-beam ^, for tlie coilnr is tenoned into thehiIIg post and rafter. That author defers dating theperiod of the of medicxval carpentry (aswell as of joinery) until the end of the 15th and thebeginning o
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. he collars 1), are supposedby him to exercise a favouiable eHect in pre-venting the flexure of the rafter outwards, whereast!ie fact would seem to be that the brace lias to holdup the collar D and with it tlie stirrup B, and witl;them the tie-beam ^, for tlie coilnr is tenoned into thehiIIg post and rafter. That author defers dating theperiod of the of medicxval carpentry (aswell as of joinery) until the end of the 15th and thebeginning of the 16th century. 205i/t Tlie flaming of cradle roofs, with king-postscarried upon (^imt nini/hu/, as Viollet le Uuc sup-poses) the tie-beams, became a practice that inFiance was general fiom the latter part of the 12tbuntil the end of ihe 16th ceiitu j, and which con-tinued the same peculiarities of construction that areal)ove indicated The distinction between t!ie stirrupand the post is less easy in the truss shown in^.^. 70le.,but still it must be reckoned as a ))ost; this exampler< m the prefecure, formerly the episcopal palace, at. Fig. 701c.
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