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Revitalising and Rebuilding

An historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Andrew More Senior Building Services Engineer

Building Services and Emergency Planning Team Conservation Department - Planning Group

Historic England

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

A brief quiz to prompt discussion to get us going

Consider the following three current vehicles…

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Toyota Prius

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Land Rover Defender

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Jeep Wrangler

Toyota Prius: petrol/electric hybrid; steel body; large battery pack and lots of complicated electronics.

Land Rover Defender: diesel engine; steel chassis; mostly

aluminium body; some electronics.

Jeep Wrangler: diesel engine, steel chassis and body; more electronics than the Land Rover.

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

As they say in exams: Discuss! Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

We’ll revisit later the concepts of ‘embedded energy’

and ‘the adaptation and restoration of equipment’

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Death by PowerPoint

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Historic England Planning Group

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Development Management: Inspectors of Historic Buildings and Areas

Inspectors of Ancient Monuments

Heritage at Risk: Architects and Surveyors

Nine regional offices

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

The Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels Cornwood, Devon

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

The first heating system lay under a grille in a void now filled in where the carpet is set into the floor tiles, but how did it work?

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Perkins Pipe Coils

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Perkins Pipe

Loops

Chartered Institution of Building Service Engineers CIBSE

CIBSE Heritage Group www.hevac-heritage.org

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Relative dimensions of typical Perkins pipework (left) to 1¼” heavy-gauge steel pipework (right)

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Re-painted pipe coil – to be re-painted

again to better match the wall

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

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Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

£15,000 for five

radiators!

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Typical reclaimed radiator Made by Beeston

Installed by Haden

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

New pipework running above the existing Perkins pipework Further painting will match the wall more closely

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

New pipework bends to be Adjusted to match the Perkins

pipework beneath

Painting of new to match the wall surface

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Early box-ended radiator Ladbroke Grove, London

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Unusual low-level radiator Wrest Park

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Pipe loop type radiators Litherland, Liverpool

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Shipdham, Norfolk 1880 by local manufacturer

Cooper and Vincent

Parish Church Interiors in Changing Times: an historic ‘Perkins’ heating system re-used and expanded to meet modern heating requirements

Thanks for listening

Photographs by: Cornwood Church - Churchwardens Keith Dodds - Exeter DAC Heating Advisor Focus Multimedia Andrew More and Geraldine O’Farrell - Historic England Jeep USA Studio Briggs Archive courtesy of Roger Kennett Design