spure

Isaac Kremer/ September 9, 2018/ / 0 comments

Screen, usually treated decoratively, and with one or two doorways, at the lower end of a medieval hall defining the screens-passage between hall and kitchen, or separating the cross-entry from the hall. Its top often coincided with the tie-beam of a roof-truss above, in which case the screen and truss were termed the speer- or spere-truss. 2. Short screen, check, or heck between a door-way and a fireplace, acting as a baffle. (Curl & Wilson, 2016)