Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from Reigate Priory School, Bell Street, Reigate, Surrey
Author(s): Dr Martin Bridge
The roof over the main range of this house was thought to have been constructed immediately pre-Reformation, but a dendrochronological date was requested in order to inform a conservation plan and subsequent management at the site. Seven timbers dated and gave an interpreted felling date range of AD 1553-64. Complete sapwood on several timbers could not be retained intact, but gave sufficient information to suggest that the actual date of felling is most likely to have been in the earliest few years of this date range. This roof is therefore post-Reformation, a fact which is significant for the interpretation of the development of the building.
- Report Number:
- 76/2003
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 11
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
