Objektnummer
51/501
Beskrivelse
Brick ovens for baking bread were a common feature in old farmhouses and better class cottages. The mouth of the oven was closed with a separate door made of wood or, later, sheet iron, and often with two handles which enabled it to be lifted completely away. This is a wooden oven door with one long wooden handle. It came from a cottage that was said to be 750 years old.
Fysisk beskrivelse
1 oven door: wood (probably oak); fair condition
Arkivhistorik
MERL 'Catalogue index' card – 'This oven door is made of wood and is rectangular in shape, measuring 18 inches by 12 inches. It has one long wooden handle. When received the door had a deposit of soot on it. The door is 3 inches thick. // See 51/502L', MERL 'Catalogue index' card – 51/502 – 'Brick ovens for baking bread were a common feature in old farmhouses and better class cottages. They showed on the exterior of the building as a semi-circular projection with a rounded top and its own roof. Inside the kitchen, the top of the oven was stepped back in brick work, and the inside of the oven was arched with a flat floor. The mouth of the oven was closed with a separate door of wood or sheet iron with two handles so that it could be moved right away. Wooden doors are earlier in date than iron ones.', Lavinia Smith No. 165., Lavinia Smith Catalogue (D60/28) - 'A list of the contents of the East Hendred museum. July 5 1940 // Heating and Cooking // 165-167. Three wooden doors for these backovens used before iron doors were introduced. The oldest one came from a cottage which an architect said was 750 years old. One was made to slip to and fro. It has a hard deposit of soot on it.' (The other two are likely to be 51/502 and 51/503), Lavinia Smith Catalogue (D60/28) - 'A list of the contents of the East Hendred museum. July 5 1940 // The Fire and Hearth // 10. wooden door for oven . . . Frank Stibbs. From a cottage said by an architect to be 750 years old.' (The oven door appears to be recorded twice in Lavinia Smith's catalogue on two separate lists - one perhaps made at a later date?), Heritage of the Hendreds Exhibition 1969 - 'Catalogue of Exhibits // Number 62 // Oven Door // Lent by Museum of English Rural Life' (The catalogue description could also refer to 51/503, 51/811 and 51/502)
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