English Medieval Floor Tiles

These were placed inside the church where they remain today as a reminder of how beautiful english abbeys must have once been.

English medieval floor tiles.

Tintern abbey medieval floor tile pendant medieval design jewelry resin pendant medieval design necklace key chain key ring key fob. By utilising various coloured glazes intricate patterns could be created. Straw was not needed to keep people from slipping on wet slate but it was used as a floor covering on most surfaces to provide a modicum of warmth and cushioning. 5 out of 5 stars 1 087 1 087 reviews 15 00.

Medieval reproduction tiles chained swan tiles english heraldic tile design dragonpottery. Fourteenth century tiles you might not have given much thought to medieval floors but they were quite varied and these days they offer good opportunities to a novelist for scene setting or showing a character s state of mind. In castles the ground floor might be beaten earth stone tile or plaster but upper stories almost invariably had wooden floors 2 and the same pattern likely held true in town dwellings. Some of the earliest know medieval floor tiles found in britain are mosaics.

They were cut out using a template and had little or no pattern on them apart from a few which would have been the centrepiece of a large design. Victorian english gothic revival tiles what were called encaustic tiles in the victorian era were originally called inlaid tiles during the medieval period. This tile was once part of a highly decorated floor at chertsey abbey surrey. Her expertise grew out of a job at the british museum which involved cataloguing and conserving their collection of decorated english medieval floor tiles.

Victorian excavation of mucheleny abbey revealed medieval floor tiles belonging to the lady chapel. The use of the word encaustic to describe an inlaid tile of two or more colors is linguistically incorrect. The medieval inlaid tiles which are considered here may seem relatively mundane by comparison if only because of the level of erosion which has taken place over the centuries since they were first made which has left little more than ghosts of their original designs. The curator responsible for the mint s extensive ceramics collection stated the museum had nothing like it and it filled a big gap in their ceramics collection.

The ashmolean has an interesting collection of medieval floor tiles.