Coalbrookdale  Heater  Casings

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

Montacute House  Yeovil   Somerset

Highnam Church   Gloucestershire

The Library  Cardiff Castle

Cardiff   Castle                 Ornate pedestal cover              for fabricated pipe coil

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 Bronze or Gunmetal enclosure with ornamental lattice front

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

CHARLECOTE HOUSE - WARWICKSHIRE Timber enclosure with lattice front & sides with marble top slab

ST MARY'S CHURCH   KINGS PYON  -  HEREFORDSHIRE
Ornamental cast iron 4-sided enclosure
with the name R P Brown Hereford



MANCHESTER TOWN HALL
Ornamental cast iron 3-sided enclosure with scrolled design pattern
and decorative marble top slab