Table 4: Other Details of Tree-ring Dated Late 12th/early 13th Century Aisled Halls

Tree-ring felling date

Type of building

Earthfast Arcade Posts

Aisle assembly

Vertical Boarding in walls

Flying tiebeam

Dragon ties

Capitals carved or moulded

1167

-1185

Fyfield Hall, Essex

aisled hall

Yes

?

Boarding at least in internal walls

across middle of each hall bay

none in hall

Carved

1176

-1221

Knights Templars' Hall, Temple Balsall,

aisled hall

Padstone

?

Boarding in at least internal walls

across middle of each hall bay

prob at ends of building

No capital

1179

Bishops Palace, Hereford

aisled hall with clerestorey

Padstone

?

?

?

?

Yes

1184

-1219

Westwick Cottage, Leverstock Green, Herts

aisled hall

?

normal

Boarding in at least internal walls

no

none in hall

Moulded

1182

-1227

Newbury Farmhouse, Tonge, Kent

aisled hall

?

?

?

no

none in hall

Moulded

1205

Sycamore Frm, Long Crendon, Bucks

aisled hall - possibly rebuilt 14th century of reused timber

On stone pad

?

?

no?

none in surviving timbers

none

1205

-1230

Barley Barn, Cressing, Essex

Barn

No

?

?

no?

at ends of barn

No capital

1220

-1225

Harlowbury Hall, Harlow, Essex

aisled hall of Bury St Edmunds Abbey

?

?

?

probably none

none in hall

Carved

No heartwood/sapwood boundary

after

1159

Burmington Manor, Warwickshire

aisled hall with stone walls & one crosswing

?

Stone walls, possibly rebuilt

no

no

no

Carved