Belling, Stoves and New World oven symbols
12 symbols that Belling and Stoves themselves document, each in our own drawing, with the Belling, Stoves and New World name for the mode next to ours. Tap a symbol for what it does, where makes differ and every source.
Check your manual — models differ. Two Belling, Stoves and New World ovens can carry different sets of symbols, and the same drawing can mean different things on different brands; only your model’s manual says exactly which elements run and how hot.
Read this first
Belling, Stoves and New World are sister UK cooker brands from one group, and their manuals draw the dials alike. The symbols below come from a Belling built-in oven manual and a Stoves built-in multifunction oven manual; no New World manual has been checked yet, so on a New World oven confirm in your manual. Two traps: the Stoves manual draws Slow Cook as three wavy lines over a bottom line (the drawing other makes use for keep warm), not the dashed lines Bosch and Siemens use; and Belling calls its centre grill “Radiant Heat”.
The 12 symbols
Top and bottom heat (conventional)
Belling calls it “Conventional”.
Confirmed by:
- Belling — Built-in 60cm oven BEL BI603MFC manual (2021), checked 2026-09-28: “Conventional”: a line at the top and a line at the bottom; traditional baking and roasting on one level.
Fan oven (hot air, true fan)
Belling calls it “Convenction”.
Confirmed by:
- Belling — Built-in 60cm oven BEL BI603MFC manual (2021), checked 2026-09-28: “Convenction” (sic): a fan in a circle; an element round the convection fan provides the heat.
Fan with top and bottom heat (fan-assisted)
Belling calls it “Conventional + Fan”.
Confirmed by:
- Belling — Built-in 60cm oven BEL BI603MFC manual (2021), checked 2026-09-28: “Conventional + Fan”: a fan between a top and a bottom line; the fan spreads the elements’ heat, for baking on up to three levels.
Bottom heat
Stoves calls it “Base Heat”.
Confirmed by:
- Stoves — Built-in 90cm multifunction oven ST BI902MFCT user manual (2019), checked 2026-09-28: “Base Heat”: a single line at the bottom; extra base heat, e.g. to brown pizza, pies and quiche towards the end of cooking.
Fan with bottom heat (pizza setting)
Stoves calls it “Pizza Function”.
Confirmed by:
- Stoves — Built-in 90cm multifunction oven ST BI902MFCT user manual (2019), checked 2026-09-28: “Pizza Function”: a fan in a circle above a bottom line; the fan element and fan cook the pizza or quiche while the base element browns the base.
Full grill
Belling calls it “Double Grill”.
Confirmed by:
- Belling — Built-in 60cm oven BEL BI603MFC manual (2021), checked 2026-09-28: “Double Grill”: a zigzag across the full top; the whole area below the element becomes hot, for steaks, sausages and toast.
Centre or half grill
Belling calls it “Radiant Heat”.
Confirmed by:
- Belling — Built-in 60cm oven BEL BI603MFC manual (2021), checked 2026-09-28: “Radiant Heat”: a short zigzag in the middle of the top; only the centre area under the element becomes hot, for small amounts of steaks or sausages.
Fan grill (turbo grill, hot-air grilling)
Belling calls it “Double Grill + Fan”.
Confirmed by:
- Belling — Built-in 60cm oven BEL BI603MFC manual (2021), checked 2026-09-28: “Double Grill + Fan”: a zigzag along the top with a fan below; for roasting poultry, fish and larger pieces of meat, 50–250 °C.
Defrost (snowflake and drop)
Belling calls it “Defrost”.
Confirmed by:
- Belling — Built-in 60cm oven BEL BI603MFC manual (2021), checked 2026-09-28: “Defrost”: a snowflake over a water drop; for gently defrosting frozen food.
Oven light (bulb)
Belling calls it “Lamp”.
Confirmed by:
- Belling — Built-in 60cm oven BEL BI603MFC manual (2021), checked 2026-09-28: “Lamp”: a light bulb; lights the cavity without switching on any heating element.
Child lock (key or padlock)
Belling calls it “Lock”.
Confirmed by:
- Belling — Built-in 60cm oven BEL BI603MFC manual (2021), checked 2026-09-28: “Lock”: a padlock key and display icon; the child lock stops the oven being switched on by accident.
Timer or minute minder (clock)
Belling calls it “Clock Function”.
Confirmed by:
- Belling — Built-in 60cm oven BEL BI603MFC manual (2021), checked 2026-09-28: “Clock Function”: a clock-face key; press repeatedly to set the clock, minute minder, duration and end time.
Not listed for Belling, Stoves and New World
The Belling, Stoves and New World sources checked here do not show these symbols from this site, so they are left off this page: Pizza, Intensive heat, Slow cook, Eco fan, Plate warming, Keep warm, Reheat, Dough proving, Steam or added steam, Fast preheat, Pyrolytic self-cleaning, Steam cleaning, Alarm, Bread baking. That does not mean no Belling, Stoves and New World oven has them — only that no Belling, Stoves and New World manual or support page cited here confirms the drawing. If your oven shows one, see all oven symbols by shape.
Other brands
Sources
A symbol is listed here only when one of these Belling, Stoves and New World pages shows it. Each was fetched and checked on the date shown; the names in quotes are the brand’s wording, everything else is ours.
- Belling: Belling — Built-in 60cm oven BEL BI603MFC manual (2021) Checked 2026-09-28.
- Stoves: Stoves — Built-in 90cm multifunction oven ST BI902MFCT user manual (2019) Checked 2026-09-28.