Bedlam Furnaces Shropshire, Ironbridge Gorge Architecture, IGMT Project News
Bedlam Furnaces, Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site
IGMT Historic Shropshire Building, western England – Historic England Heritage At Risk Register
31 Oct 2017
Bedlam Furnaces at Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site Building
Bedlam Furnaces removed from Historic England?s Heritage At Risk Register
Bedlam Furnaces, one of the most important industrial monuments in the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, has been taken off Historic England?s Heritage at Risk Register, thanks to the construction of a protective canopy by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, with the support of Historic England and the Ironbridge (Telford) Heritage Foundation.
photo courtesy of IGMT
Bedlam Furnaces are of international significance as they were amongst the first in the country to be built specifically to smelt iron with coke and research suggests that much of the ironwork for the Iron Bridge was cast there. Now they are believed to be the last furnaces of their type that remain largely intact.
Anna Brennand, Chief Executive Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust commented: ?The structures are a unique reminder of the scale of the iron industry in Shropshire and that by 1788 a third of all iron smelted in Great Britain was being made in the county. The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust started conducting conservation work and archaeological studies on the Furnaces in the 1970s. This greatly increased our understanding of ...