The Bishop of Winchester's Medieval Manor House at Harwell, Berkshire, and its Relevance in the Evolution of Timber-Framed Aisled Halls

Bibliographic Data

ID11616334
AuthorsJ M Fletcher (0000-0003-2473-1740, corresponding author), C R J Currie
Year1979
Volume136
Issue1
Pages173-192
Publication date1979-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueArchaeological Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0066-5983 • E-ISSN: 2373-2288
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00665983.1979.11020500
OpenAlexW1970844639
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited6

This paper is based on the lecture given to the Institute at the Society of Antiquaries of London on 18 October 1972. It concerns the discovery in 1967 in a house in the village of Harwell of the aisled hall, formerly in the curia of the medieval manor of the Bishop of Winchester, for which the Pipe Rolls for most of the years from 1208 to 1450 exist. The earliest phase of which parts survive consisted of a framed building with passing-braces built in the twelfth or early thirteenth century. The evolution of this form of timber dwelling with oak is traced from continental, probably lower Rhineland, structures of the ninth and tenth centuries. The long timbers used as passing braces are likely to have been derived from buildings in southern Germany which used conifers such as fir, timber that in turn had a long history from Roman times

Ancient history · Archaeology · Ninth · Relevance (law · Historical Architecture and Urbanism · History · Landscape and Cultural Studies · Law · Medieval European History and Architecture

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