20×36 Timber Frame Chapel

The cruck frame has been shaping sacred spaces since medieval England — its sweeping blades and soaring interior arch a natural fit for places meant to inspire. The 20×36 Timber Frame Chapel brings that same architectural soul to a purpose-built scale: wide enough for a congregation, long enough for a proper nave, and dramatic enough to leave an impression the moment someone steps inside.

Cruck blades are joined at their apex to serve as both post and principal rafter — a structurally efficient form that eliminates interior posts and opens the entire floor plan. At 20 feet wide, the result is a genuine open-hall experience. The Gothic arch overhead isn't decorative — it is the structure, and it reads that way from every seat.

To make this historically demanding form buildable with modern tools, the curved cruck blades are engineered as two-piece assemblies, sized for CNC precision cutting without sacrificing the form's organic sweep. Traditional mortise-and-tenon joinery carries throughout, with structural bracing that doubles as ornament — exactly as it was meant to be.

Frame Specifications:
Footprint: 20' × 36' (outside to outside of posts), Multi-bay design, Steep roof pitch for soaring interior volume, Two-piece cruck blade construction for precision fabrication

Common Uses:
Small chapel or wedding venue, meditation or retreat center, community gathering hall, event pavilion, covered outdoor sanctuary, or artist studio.

Leave it open to the elements as a covered outdoor sanctuary, or enclose it fully for a year-round sacred space. Either way, the 20×36 Cruck Chapel is Ready-to-Raise™ — and the kind of structure people will drive out of their way to see.