Guesten Hall Roof

Date:: 20 Aug 2000

Location:: Guesten Hall Roof, Stoke Prior, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire

Reference:: IOE01/02215/03

Type:: Photograph (Digital)

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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SO 95 68 STOKE PRIOR CP AVONCROFT MUSEUM OF BUILDINGS Stoke Heath

17/92 Guesten Hall Roof

GV II*

Roof. c1320, rebuilt 1865 and restored early 1970s. Timber-framed with corrugated asbestos cladding. Seven bays (eight trusses) of an ornate roof; each truss has an arch-braced collar, with two raking struts above, the central part of the V is a quatrefoil, the two spandrels are trefoils; there are two tiers of moulded purlins with cupsed and pierced wind-braces. This was on the Guesten Hall of Worcester Priory until that building was demolished; it was re-erected on Holy Trinity Church, Worcester in 1865; the church was demolished in 1969 and the roof was then re-erected on the ground at Avoncroft, restored to its original pitch. (FWB Charles, The Guesten Hall Roof, Worcester Cathedral. A Survey. Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, NS, Vol 18, 1971, pp 49 - 63).

Listing NGR: SO9515968381

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/2219 IOE Records taken by Owain Williams; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Williams, Owain

Rights Holder: Williams, Owain

Keywords

Asbestos, Timber, Medieval Timber Framed Building, Monument (By Form), Guest House, Commercial, Religious Ritual And Funerary, Domestic, Residential Building, Cathedral, Place Of Worship, Religious House, Benedictine Monastery, Monastery, Priory, Church, Architectural Fragment, Unassigned, Museum, Education, Recreational, Art And Education Venue