Crown-post and King-strut Roofs in South-East England

Abstract

AbstractTHREE MAJOR KING-STRUT ROOFS of 13th-century date in Canterbury are published for the first time, and a group of analogous roofs in SE. England is described. A related group of side-purlin roofs at Chichester and Bishop's Waltham is discussed, together with the known examples of crown-post roofs dating from before c. 1300. It is suggested that continental roof-types influenced the work at Canterbury and Chichester, and that the 13th-century crown-post roofs may be derived from the king-strut tradition.1