All
Saints Church Shipdham Norfolk |
The heating system
was installed
circa.1880 and has several of the original box-ended cast iron pipe coil heaters still being used today, having been in service for over 100 years. Photographs of the heaters provided by Heritage Group member Geraldine O'Farrell |
The heaters are stood on base plinths which bear the inscription of the name of the installer of the heating system. Cooper & Vincent - Dereham & Watton. The firm Cooper was listed in the Norfolk PO Directory of 1869 as Cooper Bros. of East Dereham. This firm no longer exists. The second firm Vincent may have been the company who cast the pipe coil heaters, as there is an iron foundry still in business in Watton today. |
It is
interesting to see the decorative ornamental design pattern inscribed
into both the side and ends of the box headers and then to compare them
with the designs found on the end headers of similar pipe coil heaters
in other churches.
Visit the Cropthorne Church webpage and make the comparisons. |