Project background

Stirling Castle’s Great Hall is the largest ever built in Scotland and was intended for great celebrations and occasions of state. When the military left the premises in 1964, the work began to restore it as the designers originally intended in 1500.

Engaged by Historic Scotland, this is one of our largest restoration projects to date. We provided a new rood screen, doors and external staircase, however the rebuilding of the vast mediaeval roof is what really stands out.

The setting out of the roof was inevitably complicated by the fact that the west wall of the Hall was so severely out of alignment. The west side of every truss, therefore, had to be set out individually to match the curve in the wall-head; the angle of every joint was also slightly altered as the pitch changed to meet the wall head.

The images here hardly do justice to the scale and complexity of this beautiful hammer-beam roof structure.

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The Great Hall with its awe inspiring, restored, hammer beam roofThe roof detail, every truss is different because of the bow in the west wallAs well as the roof we undertook the restoration of a range of internal and external featuresThe heavy oak staircase has weathered to a soft silvery grey

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