A Little Chimeny Pot History

CHIMNEY POTS are a simple, inexpensive way to add height to a chimney and add ARCHITECTURAL interest to a home.

The concept of the CHIMNEY POTS developed in London during the reign of Elizabeth I.

A TRADITIONAL English home during this century would only have one fireplace with one chimney stack to heat one room. But, as the design of the traditional home slowing evolved from one room to many rooms, there developed a need to heat an entire house with only one chimney stack.

The SOLUTION - using multiple chimney pots on one stack that connected to each fireplace in the home.

By the 1660s, chimney pots flourished from a functional heating solution to a form of craftsmanship, later to be viewed as a status symbol.

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