Glass cone

{{Short description|Historical glass production facilities in the United Kingdom}}

A glass cone is a glass production structure historically unique to the United Kingdom. A glass cone had a large central furnace, a circular platform where the glassblowers worked, and smaller furnaces around its wall to ensure the glass did not cool too quickly.{{cite journal|last=Buchanan|first=Angus|date=4 July 1974|title=Industrial heritage: British glass|journal=New Scientist|publisher=New Science Publications|location=London|volume=63|issue=904|page=42|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HoZdcomupUQC&q=%22Glass+Cone%22+Alloa&pg=PA42|accessdate=9 June 2020}}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite book |last=Pearson |first=Lynn |title=Victorian and Edwardian British Industrial Architecture |publisher=Crowood Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-78500-189-5 |oclc=959428302 |pages=128–130}}

There are four surviving glass cones:

• Catcliffe Glass Cone, South Yorkshire
• Lemington Glass Works, Newcastle upon Tyne
• Northern Glass Cone, Alloa Glass Works, a Scottish scheduled monument,{{Historic Environment Scotland|desc=Alloa Glass Works,glass cone|num=SM3746|accessdate=27 October 2021}}
• Red House Cone in Wordsley, granted listed building status in 1966{{NHLE |desc=Glass Cone at Stuart and Sons Red House Glassworks |num=1076007 |accessdate=10 June 2020}}