Glass cone

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 four 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]

^ 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.

[New_Scientist_-_4_July_1974_-_Industrial_heritage:_British_glass-1] 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]}

[2] 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_-_SM3746-3] Historic Environment Scotland. "Alloa Glass Works,glass cone (SM3746)". Retrieved 27 October 2021.

[Glass_Cone_at_Stuart_and_Sons_Red_House_Glassworks-4] Historic England. "Glass Cone at Stuart and Sons Red House Glassworks (1076007)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 June 2020.

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