Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Chimney pot
Alternate name: Chimney can

A cylindrical pipe of brick, terra-cotta, or metal placed on the top of a chimney to improve the draft to draw away noxious fumes from coal-burning fireplaces

Commonly found throughout England and in the US in Tudor Revival architecture

See History of Chimney Pots (Chimney Pot Shoppe)

See also: Chimney cap

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Examples from Buffalo architecture:

• Illustration above: 702 West Ferry
  
  
• Clement Brick Museum
  
  
• Chimney pot rescued from the Metcalfe House: Clement Brick Museum
  
  
• 64 Tudor Place
  
  
• 696 Seneca Street
  
  
• Rand House
  
  
• Saturn Club
  
  
• 200 Summer St.
  
  
• 159 Linwood Ave.
  
  
• William H. Bayliss House
  
  
• J. Lyth & Sons Illustrated Catalogue and Price List

Other examples:

• The Circus, Bath, England:  Example #1 ... #2

• Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, Scotland

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