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(architecture) A large, horizontal supporting beam which bears the weight of a wall starting on a first or higher floor, particularly when exposed or used to support a jetty (timber-frame overhang construction)..
Once the floor joists were in position, the framing of the next storey could continue, with a bressummer laid along their ends.
East Lodge at Queen's Park, Crewe, dates from 1887-1888. Its bressummer inscription commemorates the Jubilee of Queen Victoria and the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Grand Junction Railway.
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Bressummer means (architecture) A large, horizontal supporting beam which bears the weight of a wall starting on a first or higher floor, particularly when exposed or used to support a jetty (timber-frame overhang construction)..
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Once the floor joists were in position, the framing of the next storey could continue, with a bressummer laid along their ends.
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