. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature. in house building according to the practice of period, these timbers would be left would all require to be planed smooth, the girdersmoulded, the binders partly so, and the joists perhaps onlystop-chamfered, which is done by cutting the arris of thetimber to an angle along its whole length, but stoppingshort of the ends by a few inches, when it is returnedinto the arris by a cant. The underside of the joists in aframed floor may be lined with chamfered boarding o
. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature. in house building according to the practice of period, these timbers would be left would all require to be planed smooth, the girdersmoulded, the binders partly so, and the joists perhaps onlystop-chamfered, which is done by cutting the arris of thetimber to an angle along its whole length, but stoppingshort of the ends by a few inches, when it is returnedinto the arris by a cant. The underside of the joists in aframed floor may be lined with chamfered boarding orformed into panels and ornamented,—a boltel or a set ofmouldings forming a frame or cornice all round against thebinder. The girders would rest upon stono corbels, eithermoulded or decorated with foliage or figures, or all threeunited. Viollet le Due, in his valuable Dictionnaire raisonnede rArchitecture, gives several examples of such a floor. 484 BUILDING [CAEPENTEX of one of which we avail ourselves, from a house at Rheimsof the 16th century (fig. 37). He gives an example also of. JOIST FiQ. 37.—Mediffival Flooving. a floor formed of a girder into which joists are laid formedof square timbers cut in half through the diagonal. Theseare fixed close together like a succession of vs, thus vvvvv,and boarded over. The top of the angle space formed by twojoists is filled up with a small angle fillet presenting a flatsurface. The whole effect is unique. In medijeval carpenters work it was always the ruleonly to mould the useful members, and so it was also asregards the carving. Most of the old wood carving is socontrived as to be wrought out of the same plank orthickness as that which is moulded, or else is a separatepiece of wood, in a spandril for instance, enclosed withinthe constructional members. In joining their work, whichwas of oak, they Uusled entirely to tenoning and pinningwith stout oak pins. PilUra. Although cast-iron columns and stanchions have for Bome years been
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