TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM THE ROOF OF ST LEONARD'S CHAPEL, FARLEIGH HUNGERFORD CASTLE, NORTON ST PHILIP, SOMERSET

Author(s): Dr Martin Bridge

A dendrochronological investigation of the roof of this mid fourteenth-century stone chapel was carried out in order to determine the age of the existing roof and the extent of original timbers remaining. One section of the roof was clearly rebuilt and thought to be of eighteenth-century origin. The study was unable to confirm whether or not some of the existing wallplates were from an earlier structure, although the one wallplate that did date was found to be contemporaneous with the rest of the main roof structure, from a group of trees most likely felled in the period AD 1600-22. The replacement truss and associated purlins were made from a group of trees most likely felled in the period AD 1765-95. One of the eighteenth-century timber group which could not be dated had a growth pattern suggesting that it was from a pollarded tree.

Report Number:
55/2002
Series:
CfA Reports
Pages:
16
Keywords:
Dendrochronology Standing Building

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