Fireplace Mantels & Surrounds · Arts & Crafts / Craftsman
Inglenook with Copper Hood, Wightwick Manor
An arched inglenook at Wightwick Manor with oak-paneled benches on each side, herringbone-laid tiles and a beaten copper hood over the grate.
Design characteristics
Wightwick Manor near Wolverhampton was built between 1887 and 1893 to designs by Edward Ould for Theodore Mander, and is furnished in the spirit of William Morris and the Arts & Crafts movement. This inglenook turns the fireplace into a small room: a broad arch frames an alcove lined with oak paneling, with built-in benches facing each other across the hearth. The back wall is laid with glazed tiles in a herringbone pattern, and a beaten copper hood gathers the smoke above an open grate with brass andirons. Inglenooks like this were one of the defining features of Arts & Crafts houses on both sides of the Atlantic.
Classification
- Category
- Fireplace Mantels & Surrounds
- Motifs
- Inglenook, Copper hood, Built in seating
- Photograph
- 2016
- Photographer
- Mike Peel
- Evidence
- Photograph of a documented interior or object
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Architectural context
Honest materials, visible joinery and woodwork built into the room. Britain and the United States · c. 1880–1930.
