Yeongmojae Hall, Jinju

This jaesil (ancestral memorial hall) was built in 1847, the 13th year of King Heonjong, by descendants of the Ogokgong branch of the Miryang Son clan, who had been rooted in this area for more than 500 years, in order to honour their ancestors. Yeongmojae comprises the shrine Hyochungsa, the jaesil hall Yeongmojae itself, Sagyeondang, and a caretaker's house, together with a gate house and an inner three-bay gate to the shrine. The gate house, Yeongmojae, and Hyochungsa stand along a single axis, with the caretaker's house and Sagyeondang set to either side between the gate house and Yeongmojae; because these two buildings project outward, the site forms a T-shape. Yeongmojae itself is five kan wide across the front and two kan deep. Around a central two-kan daecheong (wooden-floored hall) are two kan of rooms on the left and one on the right; the left-hand rooms have had their partitions removed to form one continuous space, and since the front half of each side bay serves as a veranda bay, the rooms are effectively one-and-a-half kan deep. The platform is built up high like a retaining wall, faced on the front with five courses of dressed rectangular stone; a four-step stair rises to the platform in front of the central bay, and a single doorstep stone in that bay leads up from the platform into the daecheong. Wide, flat natural stones serve as column bases beneath square columns, with stout timbers suited to the building's scale used throughout. The floors are all laid with grid-pattern wooden flooring, and the doors follow forms typical of jaesil architecture — lattice doors generally, plank doors at the rear of the daecheong, and four-leaf folding lattice doors between the hall and the rooms — while the lintel members mostly double as door frames, so their height varies with each door. The frame is a five-purlin structure in which square king-posts stand on a handsomely curved main beam to support the upper beam, which in turn carries a trapezoidal panel-shaped king-post supporting the ridge purlin. It has a single eave and a hip-and-gable roof; the eaves curve upward only slightly, but the ridgelines curve more strongly, giving the roof a handsome profile, so that despite its long front elevation the building appears well-balanced overall.

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Region

Jinju, Gyeongnam

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료