The Glassworks Cone
The Glassworks Cone, Main Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1132732
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Glassworks Cone
- Statutory Address:
- The Glassworks Cone, Main Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1132732
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Glassworks Cone
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Glassworks Cone, Main Street
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Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- The Glassworks Cone, Main Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Catcliffe
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 42545 88614
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 January 2022 to update text and reformat to current standards
SK48NW
7/1
CATCLIFFE
MAIN STREET (west side, off)
The Glassworks Cone
29.3.68
I
Glass cone. c1740 for William Fenney. Dressed sandstone plinth wall, brickwork above. Immense cone approximately 20 metres high pierced by openings round its base and open at the top. On east and west sides, at present ground level, are brick archways now buried. Sloping plinth wall with band above. Springing from band are three large segmentally-arched openings; also set around base are three round-arched openings, two segmentally-arched doorways and four segmentally-arched windows.
Interior: floor concreted, no visible remains of central kiln.
William Fenney previously managed the Bolsterstone Glasshouse owned by his mother-in-law. The terms of her will prevented Fenney from setting up another glasshouse within 10 miles of Bolsterstone; Catcliffe is 10 1/2 miles to the south-east and its glassworks became one of four established in the first half of the C18 by Bolsterstone men. Eventually passed into the hands of Henry Blunn before its closure in 1884-1887; re-opened briefly in 1900. Excavation of the site in 1962 revealed details of the kiln and flue structures. The cone is the oldest surviving structure of its type in Western Europe and one of only four to remain in the U. K. Scheduled Ancient Monument.
G. Lewis, 'The Catcliffe Glassworks, Journal of Industrial Archaeology, 1964-65, vol 1, pp206-211.
Listing NGR: SK4254588614
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335632
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lewis, G, The Catcliffe Glassworks, ()
Journal of Industrial Archaeology in Journal of Industrial Archaeology, Vol. 1, (1964-5), 206-211
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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