Table 2: Details of Tree-ring Dated Late 12th/13th Century Aisled Halls

 

Felling date

Location

Type of building

Cross-wing

Status

Roof

Rafter Bracing

Orientation

Hall Bays

Rooms Beyond Hall

Size of Open Hall

Ratio of Aisle to Nave

                 

No

Equal/
un-equal

Both ends

One end

Total length

Width between arcade plates

Total width

Original Aisle (%)

Later Aisle(%)

1167

-1185

Fyfield Hall, Essex

aisled hall

All in line

Manor House

Survives over open hall - collar rafter

Yes

E-W

2

Eq

Yes in line

 

38 ft

16 ft

35 ft

48%

38%

1176

-1221

Knights Templars ft Hall, Temple Balsall, W Midlands

aisled hall

All in line

Manor House

survives only over bay outside hall - collar rafter

Yes

SW-NE

2

Eq

Probably Yes

one end bay survives beyond hall

33 ft

19 ft

34 ft

38%

34%

1179

 

Bishops Palace, Hereford

aisled hall with clerestorey

possibly at one end

Palace

none survives

Unknown

N-S

4

Eq

No

Yes possibly crosswing

110 ft

24 ft

55 ft

?

48%

1184

-1219

Westwick Cottage, Leverstock Green, Hemel Hemstead, Herts

aisled hall

one end inline, other un-certain, could have been crosswing

Probably not a Manor House

only centre truss survives - prob collar rafter

Unknown

E-W

2

Uneq

?

Yes in line

23 ft plus spere bay

14 ft

23 ft

24%

 

1182

-1227

Newbury Farmhouse, Tonge, Kent

aisled hall

surviving end in line

Probably not a Manor House

only centre truss survives prob collar rafter

Unknown

N-S

2

Eq

?

Yes in line

31 ft

16 ft

34 ft

39%

35%

1205

 

Sycamore Frm, Long Crendon, Bucks

aisled hall - possibly rebuilt 14th century of reused timber

surviving end in line

Not manor house

rebuilt with crown post - prob collar rafter

unknown

NE-SW

2+

?

?

possibly yes in line

11 ft for surviv- ing bay

11 ft 4 in

?

   

1205

-1230

Barley Barn, Cressing, Essex

Barn

 

Barn of Knights Templars

rebuilt with crown post - prob collar rafter

Probably no

N-S

5 +
2 half
ends

Eq

   

119 ft total internal length

24 ft

 

40%

36%

1220

-1225

Harlowbury Hall, Harlow, Essex

aisled hall of Bury St Edmunds Abbey

All in line

Manor House

survives over open hall - collar rafter + soulaces

No

E-W

2

Eq

 

Yes in line

43 ft

19 ft

37 ft

33%

 
 

No heartwood/sapwood boundary

after

1159

Burmington Manor, Warwickshire

aisled hall with stone walls & one crosswing

Crosswing

Manor House

gone but prob collar rafter

 

SE-NW

2

Eq

 

Yes

30 ft

16 ft

30.5 ft

?

43%