Site Event/Activity record ESF21456 - Tree-Ring Analysis - Church of St Mary, Bramford

Assessment of the timbers of the spire revealed that none of them contained sufficient rings to make them suitable candidates for dendrochronological dating. Of the timbers sampled in the structures at the top of the tower, two pairs of timbers matched each other, and were combined into new average series. Neither series was dated. One of the two large north-south beams retained complete sapwood, and was found to have been felled in winter AD 1810/11. This date is over a decade later than inscriptions on some of the other timbers, and hence appears to represent another phase of repair or rebuilding at the site. Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous No, Future No Associated Identifiers: LBS No. 279248 Related HER No. BRF 024 NMR No. 1553663 Project Type: Building Recording Methods and Techniques: Dendrochronological Survey Reason for Investigation: Research Site status: Listed Building Monument Type(s)/Period(s): CHURCH Post Medieval , CHURCH Medieval Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): N/A None PROJECT LOCATION Area 200.00 Square metres Grid Reference: TM1273146306 Point PROJECT CREATOR(S) Organisation: University College, London Brief originator: None Design originator: English Heritage Director/Manager: Martin Bridge Supervisor: Martin Bridge DIGITAL ARCHIVE Recipient: English Heritage Contents: Survey Media: Images raster / digital photography, Survey PAPER ARCHIVE Recipient: National Monuments Record Contents: Survey Media: Report BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript) Title: St Mary's Church, Bramford, Suffolk : Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from the Tower and Spire Author(s)/Editor(s): Bridge, M. C. Other Bibliographic Details: 78/2007 Date: 2007 Issuer/Publisher: English Heritage Place of Issue or Publication: Portsmouth Description: A4 heat-bound report of 9pp (ISSN 1749 8775)