Abstract
Many attempts have been made to determine how the Westminster Hall roof works, and nearly as many different conclusions have been reached (Figs 1, 3, and 4). Some architects, engineers, and architectural historians have concluded that the principal support of the roof is provided by its great wooden arch. Some have argued that the roof functions like other hammerbeam roofs, but they have not been able to agree on how a hammerbeam roof works. Still others have held that so unprecedented a space could only have been spanned with wood by combining two different types of roofs — the hammerbeam roof and the arched roof. The Westminster Hall roof is so complex that it appears as if it might function in any one of these ways, but it cannot function in more than one.
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