Plan of a church
Date
1684
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p238
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 312mm
width (page): 199mm
width (page): 199mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Figures 1-3 from a design of a 70-foot-wide church, without any pillar, by Joshua Walker of Brasenose College, Oxford and a member of the Oxford Philosophical Society. The paper was too long to be read at the meeting on 2 July 1684, but was ordered to be transcribed.
These figures are copied in LBC/9/308-16.
These figures are copied in LBC/9/308-16.
Transcription
In the first figure the outmost lines represent the Walls of the Church, which has 12 equall sides and quall Angles: the rest of the lines represent the Timbor work of the roof ichnographically; which consists chiefly of 4 such Arches as that which stands with the side forwards you in Fig 2. where the Rafters AB & CD are held in at the butt ends by a Rod of Iron an inch Diameter and 73 foot long. The joints at A&C are held steady by 2 pieces of Knee Timber fixt to the boam and Rafters with Iron pins. The 4 Arches in Fig 1 are BD. HH. KM. & NQ. In the Arches KM & NQ, the pieces of Knee Timber are fixt about the Boams and Rafters; because the Beams JI & RP lie above the Beams AC & EG, to which they are fixt with Iron pins at ZZZZ; where also 4 slender Iron rods are fixt, that reach from the Beams to teh great Rods, and bear part of their weight.
A modell so much of this Roof as is represented in the 1 figure was made by a scale wherein half an Inch represented a foot. The 4 Arches were made of Rods of Flanders Oak, the rest of Eline Rods.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
A modell so much of this Roof as is represented in the 1 figure was made by a scale wherein half an Inch represented a foot. The 4 Arches were made of Rods of Flanders Oak, the rest of Eline Rods.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 2 July 1684, ‘Another discourse was communicated from Oxford by Mr. Joshua Walker concerning the figure of a church, which may be built seventy feet wide, without any pillar in it. This also being long was not read, but ordered to be transcribed’ (Birch 4:320).
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