Ropes were also tied at each end of the tie beam if present. The timber hammerbeam roof features tie beam trusses with panelled tracery spandrels. The chancel has a tie beam roof with exposed kingpost trusses. The men were found guilty, and were hanged from a tie beam in the Bonehouse. The tie beam lacks the projecting tenon found in earlier Dutch barns. An additional tie beam was added across the east face of the west tower. The tie beam was removed by the RCMP when they left the island in 1963.