Wood burning stove inside historic fireplace?

Has anyone around here done this? Our fireplace is wonderful but needs work to bring it back to safe, functioning condition — notably a rebuild of the firebox (with firebrick), parging of smoke chamber, and damper installation. The high price tag of this has us looking at our options, especially since despite all of this, our flue is in tremendous shape despite its age.

The efficiency of a wood burning stove, as well as the cleanliness and the self-contained burn has us considering getting one to insert within our oversized firebox, hooking it up to the flue and calling it a day. Has anyone else done this?