St Peter's Church Filkins Oxfordshire

St Peter's church was designed by the Architect G E Street and built 1855 / 1857.
It is a Listed Grade II building by English Heritage in the parish of Filkins and Broughton
Poggs west Oxfordshire


The ornate cast iron floor gratings arrangement in the main aisle of the Nave hides a large underfloor
brickwork duct that houses a cast iron warm air stove that originally heated the church. The flue outlet
from the stove continues within the floor duct and provided extra heat into the church until the flue
finally connected with the chimney.





It can be seen from the left side image that the stove was of the Gill design which had extended
heat transfer fins around the top and both sides of the stove to give an increased heat transfer
surface output into the church. The stove was made in sections which were then clamped together
with a tie bar frame. The flue section from the stove has also been fitted with fins to increase
the amount of heat transferred from the flue gases.

The right hand image shows the fins in greater detail and also the manufacturer's name
inscribed on the firing door
 
RIMINGTON   SKIPTON

The original warm air stove heating system was replaced during the 20th century with a wet system. The boiler was fitted in a small basement room. This system has now been removed and the boiler abandoned.

The church is now in the process of having a third type of heating system installed that comprises a sealed and pressurised wet heating distribution pipework with a condensing boiler. The pipework distribution serves both fan convectors and lengths of gilled tubing. The lengths of gilled tubing are being  installed in the original floor ducts alongside the old flue ducts.