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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. The large builders air ducts were routed underground to distribute the warmed air into the Church through cast iron floor gratings. These floor 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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