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Apex
The highest point of an arch
Art Deco
An art movement from the 1920s and 1930s known for its geometric forms
and modernism.
Art Nouveau
An art movement that ended during the early 1900’s known for its
sinuous shapes.
Arts
and Crafts
A development of the
Aesthetic Movement that influenced other movemants including Art Nouveau
that commonly used natural forms such as birds, blossom and fruit.
Bars
A style of fret.
Barley Twist
Blind Fret
Detail
Applied mouldings in the "Adams Style"
Bolection
A moulding around a panel, projecting beyond the surface of the
framing.
 
Boxwood Stringing
Very thin lines denoting the edges of veneered panels
Break front
Where the frieze of the Fireplace Mantel projects forward in the
middle
Bronze
An alloy of copper, tin, zinc.
Caddy Style
The Fireplace Mantelpiece does not overlap. It has flush edges
Canopy on legs
A cast iron frame introduced around 1880 and which became very popular
in Edwardian times. It dispensed with a cast iron frame
for the tiles which were cast into their own tile
panels and placed
on either side of the canopy at an angle depending on the size of the surrounding
Fireplace Mantel.
Castellated
Having "turrets" or "battlement" details like a
castle
Chamfered
Bevelled or sloped .
Construction Hearth
A solid area of floor on which a Fireplace stands.
Contemporary
Stove
A stove manufactured in the twenty first century.
Contemporary
Style
A style from the late 1950s -60s, commonly asymmetric. A radical change from beige post war All Tiled Fireplaces.
Corbel
A projection that supports weight.
Cross Banding
Vertical veneer panels usually 1' section
Daylight Opening
The opening in a Fireplace Mantel.
Also called the sight opening.
Dentil moulding
Castellated moulding in a small section
Drop Shoulder
A step down in height at the ends of a Fireplace Mantel. A typical Art Deco feature.
Ebonised Mahogany
Edwardian
Refers to the reign of any King named Edward. On this site it refers to
the reign of Edward VII (1901-1910).
Entablature
The part of a Fireplace Mantel on top of the columns or legs with roundels, corbels
and other decoration,
Faience
Glazed coloured earthenware.
Fibreback
A ceramic coated heatproof
fibre used behind a gas fire.
Fillets
A way to reduce the daylight opening. They
are made in metal, wood, slate etc.
Finish
The final polish on a Fireplace Mantel. It can be a wax finish, spray finish, a
french polish etc.
Fireback
The back wall or ceramic back of a Fireplace using solid fuel.
Firebasket
A portable firegrate.
Flame Mahogany
Flue
A chimney, the pipe for conveying hot air and smoke away.
Fluted
Ornamented with grooves.
Fret
The decorative front covering a grate, usually free standing.
Frieze
The decorated band across a Fireplace Mantel or Fireplace.
Usually the same width as
the legs
Grate
A framework of cast iron bars for holding a fire. Victorian
grates have no legs. Stool grates are free standing
Half round
beading
Fine detail at the edges of ornate Fireplace Mantels
Hearth
The part of the floor on which a fire is made or a tiled or stone
structure on which a Fireplace stands.
Inset
or Insert
The tiled, stone or metal Fireplace containing the fire opening
that is surrounded by a Fireplace Mantel.
|Jambs
The sidepieces or legs of a Fireplace
Keystone
The stone at the apex of an arch.
Leg
returns
The outside return of a Fireplace Mantel is the depth of a Fireplace Mantel to the wall.
The inside return is the depth going to the Fireplace insert. The difference
between the two is the rebate.
Lintel
The strong support across a Fireplace opening.
Living
Flame Gas Fire
A gas fires with a burning coal effect made to suit an original or reproduction
Fireplace.
Mackintosh
Scottish designer of furniture and also Fireplace Mantels
Fireplace Mantel
Also called a Fireplace Mantelpiece.
The ornamental structure over and in front of a Fireplace.
Fireplace Mantelshelf
The ornamental shelf
over a Fireplace.
Fireplace Manteltree
The lintel or arch
of a Fireplace. Not a very common term these days.
Mantle
The part of the earth
beneath the crust that surrounds the earth's core and is the main part
of the earth's mass. The mantle has nothing to do with Fireplaces but
it does get very hot!
Marquetry
Work inlaid with pieces of various coloured woods.
Motifs
Applied Decoration.
Odeon Style
Resembling streamlined Odeon cinema style architecture with high towers
and sweeping lines. Odeions were the amphitheatres of ancient Greece
and the name Odeon was first used by cinemas in France and Italy in the
1920s.
Oscar Deutsch appropriated the name and claimed that it stood for "Oscar
Deutsch Entertains Our Nation". The first of his Odeons, built in
a Moorish style, opened in Birmingham in 1930 and the first of the streamlined
Odeons was South Harrow in 1935. He used the archictects AP Starkey,
Harry
Weedon, Andrew Mather among others. Many cast iron Fireplaces were made in this Odeon style as well as wooden Fireplace Mantels.
Opening
The area where the Fireplace insert fits in a Fireplace Mantel. Also called the daylight
opening or sight
opening.
Original
When refered to on this website an original is usually a Fireplace, mantle
or other item manufactured during the twentieth century. It can have other
meanings. For example in sculpture an "original"is the actual
piece that the artist delivers to the foundry from which "original
production" pieces are made.
Original
Art Deco Fireplace
A Fireplace made in the Art Deco style. They are mainly from the 1920s
and 1930s but can be from a number of periods in the twentieth century
from the 1920s to the 1950s and 1960s
Original Art Deco Fireplace Mantel
A Fireplace Mantel made in the Art Deco style. They are predominantly from the 1920s
and 1930s but can be from a number of periods in the twentieth century
from the 1920s to the 1950s and 1960s.
Original Art Nouveau Fireplace
A Fireplace made in the Art Nouveau style which ended in the 1910s.
Original
Art Nouveau Fireplace Mantel
A Fireplace Mantel made in the Art Nouveau style which ended in the 1910s.
Original
Arts and Crafts Fireplace
A Fireplace made in the Arts and Crafts style which ended at the start
of the Twentieth Century.
Original
Arts and Crafts Fireplace Mantel
A Fireplace Mantel made in the Arts and Crafts style which ended at the start of
the Twentieth Century.
Original
Edwardian Fireplace
A Fireplace made during the reign of Edward VII
Original Edwardian Fireplace Mantel
A Fireplace Mantel made during the reign of Edward VII
Original Mirror
A mirror from any period of the twentieth century
Original
Stove
A stove made during any period of the twentieth century
Original
Post War Fireplace
A Fireplace made after the Second World War
Original
Post War Fireplace Mantel
A Fireplace Mantel made after the Second World War
Original
Pre War Fireplace
A Fireplace made before the 1940s.
Original Pre War Fireplace Mantel
A Fireplace Mantel made before the 1940s.
Original
Turn of the Century Fireplace
A Fireplace made around the beginning of the twentieth century
Original
Turn of the Century Fireplace Mantel
A Fireplace Mantel made around the beginning of the twentieth century
Patina
Specifically the patina refers to a film of copper carbonate that forms
on a bronze or copper surface but it can also refer to oxides on the surface
of other metals or surface effects on woods etc. that occur with ageing.
It is a highly desirable effect.
Quartered
Four book matched segments of veneer- a mark of quality
Rebate
The difference between the outside and inside leg
return of a Fireplace Mantel - the gap that will hold the Fireplace
insert.
Reproduction
Fireplace
A Fireplace manufactured by us in a number of styles from the twentieth
century.
Reproduction Fireplace Mantel
A Fireplace Mantel manufactured by us in a number of styles from the twentieth century
Rope Twist
A classical decoration used as edging detail on a Fireplace Mantel.
Shoulder
End section of a Fireplace Mantelpiece where it drops down to the outside return.
Sight
Opening
The opening in a Fireplace Mantel. Also called the daylight opening
Stonite
Moulded and polished concrete used in blocks for early twentieth centures
fires
Stool
Grate
A free standing metal
support for logs or coal to be burnt
Striated
Having prominent grain in marble, stone, slate or wood.
Tile panels
Sets of
tiles cast into concrete to be placed on either side of a canopy
on legs
Throat
former
The weight bearing lower part of a flue.
Tudor Arch
A shallow pointed arch usually in stone but also appears on wooden Fireplace Mantels.
Turned Columns
Segregated bands in a column as opposed to a smooth finish
Van Delft
Glaze
1950s faience drip glaze exclusively used by H and
E Smith
(formerly Smith and Warilow) of Stoke on Trent.
The rough surfaced tile biscuits were
hand dipped
in the
glaze and then fired at extreme angles in
the kiln to
achieve the run effect of glaze
 
Veneer
Wafer thin wood glued to a "carcass" to save on materials.
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