| St Faith's Overbury Worcestershire |
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St Faith's is an unusual
name for
a church and one of only 33 churches with similar names to be found in
the
country. The church is built from warm colour Cotswolds stone and is
located on the southern side of Bredon Hill
in
the Worcestershire countryside. The warm air heating system was most
likely installed
at the time the church had a Victorian restoration in 1880,
which was designed by the eminent Architect R Norman Shaw Esq. One
claim to
fame the church has is that it has sometimes been
used
for the external scenes of weddings for The Archers, the longest
running
BBC radio series. Another claim to fame is that it has still retained
one of
the
very few
remaining G N Haden & Sons Ltd warm air stoves. The stove was first
installed in
1879, and then had remedial and replacement works carried out in 1946.
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The warm air
stove and its
arrangement of large builders work air ducts were designed and
integrated into the
fabric of the building structure for the church.
These large builders air ducts were routed underground to distribute the warmed air into the Church through cast iron floor gratings. The gratings are positioned in the aisles towards the rear of the church. |
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carried out at the Haden Archive held by the Wiltshire Record Office in
Trowbridge showed in the original Order Book for that time period that
the stove was a size No 2 and given the number of 4448 with an
entry date of 21st May 1879. Every Haden stove installed was given its own unique number.
Remedial
and replacement work was carried out to the stove in October 1946. |
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