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Herland, Hugh

( fl c. 1360; d ?Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey, before 1412). English carpenter. He was chief carpenter to Richard II (reg 1377–99), designing and building the open-timber roof of Westminster Hall, London, the largest medieval hall in England. He may have been the first carpenter to employ the angel hammerbeam motif in a large-scale structure.

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