Yeongam Jibyeongjae Hall

This building, once used as a seodang (village school), was built in the late nineteenth century. It consists of a main hall, a gate house and an auxiliary building. The main hall, Jibyeongjae, has a core three bays wide and two bays deep, with a wing one bay wide and three and a half bays deep projecting one bay further forward than the core, giving the whole an H-shaped plan. All three bays of the core are given over to a wooden-floored hall (daecheong), forming one large six-bay space suited to use as a school; the front of this hall could be opened by means of doors. In the wings on either side of the core, the projecting front bay holds a raised wooden floor (numaru), while the bays behind it are made into rooms. The roof is a hip-and-gable (paljak) roof, its sides forming the shape of the character 八 (eight), and the numaru is set on round stone pillars. The three-bay gate house has a raised central gate flanked by one room on each side. Jibyeongjae is an uncommon example of an H-shaped plan, and its numaru, though modest in scale, retains a dignified presence. It is valuable material for understanding the architecture of village schools in the late Joseon period.

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Where it is

Region

Yeongam, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산