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Hammer-beam
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Ham´mer-beam`    (~bēm`)
n.1.(Gothic Arch.) A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.


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Buchanan Street is also home to the Argyll Arcade with its ornate iron-framed hammerbeam roof.
The same people who had tracked down every last Piero della Francesca in Tuscany and who knew their way blindfolded through the cathedrals of the Ile de France, could express total ignorance about the wonders of Nottingham alabaster, Yorkshire stained glass, the hammerbeam roofs of Suffolk wool churches or the Lincolnshire misericords that lay so much closer to hand.
The quality of the work, from the hammerbeam roof to the stonework is superb.
 
 
 
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