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A glass cone is a glass production structure historically unique to the United Kingdom. A glass cone had a large central furnace, a circular platform where the glassblowers worked, and smaller furnaces around its wall to ensure the glass did not cool too quickly.[1][2]
There are five surviving glass cones:
- Catcliffe Glass Cone, South Yorkshire
- Lemington Glass Works, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Northern Glass Cone, Alloa Glass Works, a Scottish scheduled monument,[3]
- Red House Cone in Wordsley, granted listed building status in 1966[4]
- Pilkington's Jubilee Cone, St Helen's,[5] restored in the 1990s and now the entrance to the World of Glass
See also
[edit]- Bottle oven, a bottle-shaped kiln typical of Stoke-on-Trent
References
[edit]- ↑ Buchanan, Angus (4 July 1974). "Industrial heritage: British glass". New Scientist. 63 (904). London: New Science Publications: 42. Retrieved 9 June 2020.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ Pearson, Lynn (2016). Victorian and Edwardian British Industrial Architecture. Crowood Press. pp. 128–130. ISBN 978-1-78500-189-5. OCLC 959428302.
- ↑ Historic Environment Scotland. "Alloa Glass Works, glass cone (SM3746)". Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ↑ Historic England. "Glass Cone at Stuart and Sons Red House Glassworks (1076007)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
- ↑ "World of Glass by Geoffrey Reid Associates". The Architects’ Journal. 2000-10-05. Retrieved 2026-09-23.