Architectural details: the ancient oak roof structure in a Norfolk Threshing barn
A variation on the traditional Queen Post design: no struts but an additional collar at high-level and elegant tie beam braces.
This beautiful, historic oak roof structure is fully exposed and celebrated in Back to the Garden - a farm shop, deli & café, in a converted Threshing Barn in North Norfolk.
The trusses are unusual in that they have no diagonal struts, which would otherwise make this what is known as a ‘Queen Post’ arrangement. Mortice & tenon joints form the connections. Brick and lime in-fills between a brick framework of piers and ring beam at high level, and lower down the vast walls, are in-fills of brick and flint.
It’s a sumptuous fabric of historic local materials - oak, brick, lime and flint.
Cley Contemporary Art Exhibition
While at the annual Contemporary Art Exhibition at St Margaret’s Church - Cley, we were able to marvel at the vaulted stone ceiling to the late 14th Century porch.
Hosting art exhibitions in churches is a great way of exposing a larger demographic to these beautiful structures, and of providing local artists with spectacular venues for displaying their work.
The Cley Contemporary is a stimulating annual exhibition held both within the church and the grounds of St Margaret’s at Cley next the Sea, that we love to return to each summer.
Fine stone rib vaulting and window tracery within the late 14th Century South Porch
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