page_title: Inglenook
hierarchical_section_title: Inglenook
caption_attribution_description: English: 17th century English ingle-nook fireplace
context_page_description: An inglenook, or chimney corner, is a recess that adjoins a fireplace. The word comes from ingle, meaning "fireplace" in Old English, and nook.
context_section_description: An inglenook (Modern Scots ingleneuk), or chimney corner, is a recess that adjoins a fireplace. The word comes from ingle, meaning "fireplace" in Old English (from Old Scots or Irish aingeal, "angel" or euphemistically "fire"), and nook.
caption: 17th-century English inglenook fireplace with sheet iron hood to gather smoke and a cast iron basket for the wood fire
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