Yeongsajae Hall, Hapcheon

Yeongsajae Hall is a jae-sil, a memorial hall, built with funds raised by the clan and local Confucian scholars to honour Yun Jang, also known as Sajegong, the founding ancestor of the Papyeong Yun clan's settlement in Hwayang-dong; the present building was renovated in 1907. Yun Jang passed the Joseon dynasty's civil service examination and was serving in the post of Sajepansa when he fled the capital to escape the Gyeyu coup of 1453, the first year of King Danjong, retiring to Hwayang-dong, where he lived in seclusion and taught. The site, which sloped at the rear, was levelled to form an almost flat plot. On it a one-kan gate building and the memorial hall were arranged in a straight line and enclosed by a wall on all four sides. The hall has five kan, or structural bays, across the front and one-and-a-half kan on the side, built in the jeontoe style with a porch bay at the front. Its interior is arranged around a central two-kan daecheong, a wooden-floored hall, flanked by rooms — two kan to the left and one kan to the right — all floored with umulmaru, well-pattern board flooring; the front porch floor of the right-hand room is raised a step higher, creating a difference in level. Built-in wall cupboards were originally installed at the rear of the leftmost and rightmost rooms, but these no longer survive. The platform was built by stacking natural stones in random courses, and the columns stand on foundation stones of lightly worked natural stone; only the front columns are round, the rest square in section. Paired hinged lattice doors were fitted to the front of each room. The doors opening onto the daecheong originally had four folding, lift-and-hook leaves on both the left and right rooms, but these have since been replaced — a single hinged door on the right-hand room and a pair of hinged lattice doors with a kickplate on the left-hand room — while the rear wall of the daecheong is finished with timber boarding and fitted with a pair of hinged plank doors. No doors were set into the side walls. The roof frame is of the three-purlin type, with a trapezoidal board king-post set on the main beam to support the ridge purlin directly, and in the porch bay the porch beam is joined to the main beam with a lapped tongue-and-groove joint. At the front, small block brackets (soro) are inserted between the tie beam and the supporting rail beneath the eaves purlin, in the soro-sujang style. The building has single eaves and a plain gable roof without wind boards, and the roof tiles were originally finished with lime-and-earth ridge mortar, though this has now entirely fallen away. An unusual feature is that the eaves project about 40 cm further at the rear than at the front, probably so as to protect the wall cupboards, now lost, that once stood there. As a memorial hall for a village's founding ancestor, it holds considerable historical value, and because it fully retains the styles and techniques of late Joseon architecture — including its timber-working methods, the use of a porch bay, and soro decoration — it is also considered to have academic value; its state of preservation is good.

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Where it is

Region

Hapcheon, Gyeongnam

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료