Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c15.15

c15.15

“The audience hall of the kings, which is now used as a court-house, consists of a high-pitched roof supported by four rows of wooden pillars arranged so as to form a nave with its aisles, supported on a stone platform and without walls, the building being open on all sides. The pillars . . . support heavy beams and a king-post roof. The wall plates are elaborately carved and support carved terminals. The roof projects considerably over the pillars. The slope of the roof over the aisles is at a less acute angle than that of the roof over the main part of the building.”