Radiator Pedestals |
The first types of wet system room heaters manufactured during the mid-Victorian period were known as pipe coil heaters whose appearance could not be called aesthetically pleasing. So Architects / Engineers started to design cast iron casings as enclosures for these room heaters, which then became known as pedestals. These Pedestals ranged from the purely functional, to the elaborately decorative and right up to the artistically dramatic. Pedestals can still occasionally be found in buildings enclosing pipe coil heaters from the Victorian period. The following pedestals are some of the types so far discovered.
Congregational
Church Trowbridge Wiltshire
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Montacute
House Yeovil Somerset
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Highnam Church
Gloucestershire
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The Library
Cardiff Castle
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Cardiff
Castle
Ornate pedestal cover for fabricated pipe coil |
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Kingston
Lacy House
Italian Carrara Marble pedestal cover with bronze medallion inset for finned pipe coil heater |
Kingston
Lacy House
Cast bronze pedestal cover depicting Corfe Castle for finned pipe coil heater |
POWIS
CASTLE
Decorative oak panelled corner enclosure for quadrant shaped vertical tubed heater. |
POWIS CASTLE Decorative timber panelling enclosure for sectional radiator |
ARLINGTON COURT
Ornamental Cast Iron
Enclosure with marble top for Perkins system spiral shaped pipe coil heater |
DUNSTER
CASTLE SOMERSET
Bronze or Gunmetal enclosure withornamental lattice front |
DUNSTER
CASTLE SOMERSET
Bronze or Gunmetal
enclosure with ornamental
lattice front and white marble top slab |
LANHYDROCK HOUSE - CORNWALL Cast iron enclosure with
lattice front, centre medallion and marble top slab
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CHARLECOTE HOUSE - WARWICKSHIRE Timber enclosure with lattice front & sides with marble top slab |