Mid Victorian fireplace inserts tend to have narrower arched fire openings with more geometric than floral decoration.
Fireplace inserts have to be slightly larger than the opening of the surrounding mantel.
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The Clifton Arch fireplace insert features a broad raised decorated arch rib around a radially ribbed arched fireplace opening.
The central of three bars also has cast decoration typical of the Victorian period.
£240 black
£260 polished highlights
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The Belfast is a rare example of an arched and tiled fireplace insert from the Late Victorian period.
The outer arch is decorated with a six petalled flower motif spaced with parallel ribbing. The inner fireplace opening arch has stylised leaves in a flowing pattern above it.
Because the outer arch hides the top of the angled tile panels, the Belfast is suited to repeating pattern tiles rather than a full picture set.
£565 black
£625 polished highlights
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Geometric decoration of dots and dashes and dentil relief frame the main repetitive motif of linked semi-circles topped by three balls and interspersed with kite-like diamond pattern around the arched fireplace opening.
£340 black
£380 polished highlights
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A plain embossed arch with no decoration including a smooth domed hood. The hood enables a higher output gas fire to be fitted in a smaller than usual insert (14 inch opening)
£300 polished highlights
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The decoration around this arch is inspired by Islamic designs featuring images of the sun, moon and stars with interlacing incised framing lines. Elements of this decoration are reflected in the enlarged and embossed detail on the crescent hood. The three bars get progressively more decorative from the top (plain) down the central one has a cartouche and the bottom is covered with acanthus leaf like relief. The hood enables a high output gas fire to be used.
£290 polished highlights
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A stylish undecorated arch formed by three parallel ribs echoed in the three bars and three ribbed ashpan cover
£360 black
£380 polished highlights
£440 full polished
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Bigger than the Crown (Queen Sized)
This is now only available in a highlight finish and not black as shown here
£350 highlight
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This is a plain arch identical to the SUTTON but without the hood.
£340 black
£380 polished highlights
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The decoration on the raised rib around the arch opening is geometric with alternating squares and dashes complemented by the circles and dashed immediately around the opening.
£340 black
£390 polished highlights
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The Jubilee arched fireplace insert is a variant of the Crown arch is comes from 1862 celebrating the Silver Jubilee of Queen Victorias with an additional decorative band inside the main raised rib arch
£350 polished highlights
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The Royal arched fireplace insert is a version of the Crown arch with the addition of a small domed hood which enables the fitting of a high output (3kW) gas fire
£370 chromed highlights
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The Traditions Arch fireplace insert has two raised ribs around the recessed arch opening. The outer rib is plain and the inner is decorated with alternating long and short transverse slots.
£370 black
£390 polished highlights
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The Regal is an option for houses with narrower chimney breasts since it has a nominal 14 inch fire opening.
The arch is decorated with a Celtic cross motif as it tapers to the opening, an outer plain rib surrounds this and the bars are "bearded" ( the bottom bar has a rough edge due to continuing decoration below the main body - like a pelmet for curtains but at the bottom!!)
£370 polished highlights
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The decoration around this fireplace arch is inspired by Islamic designs and features images of the sun, moon and stars with interlacing incised framing lines. The three bars get progressively more decorative from the top down.
The top bar is plain, the central bar has a cartouche and the bottom bar is covered with acanthus leaf like relief.
£290 black
£340 polished highlights
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The Montgomery is based around a typical Georgian hob grate design without the hobs.
The flattened arch is decorated with a central cartouche and corner details of swirling leaves echoed in the decoration of the ashpan cover and bottom bars.
£480 traditional finish
£490 polished highlights