tile;
pavement
- Museum number
- 1980,0307.30
- Description
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Section of tile pavement comprising thirteen thick earthenware sandwich tiles, nine circular and four square with incurved corners; plastic clay body, red between buff, with inlaid decoration in red and blue, and worn yellow glaze on buff areas. The circular tiles feature the Paschal lamb within a border of rosettes; the square tiles feature a floriated cross and a similar rosette border. Maker's mark on reverse.
- Production date
- 1845 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 15.80 centimetres (circular tiles)
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Length: 27 centimetres (polygonal tiles)
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Width: 27 centimetres (polygonal tiles)
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- Curator's comments
- According to Deborah Skinner, these pavement tiles were grouted, but very tightly set.
According to M. Spender, this pavement may be from St George's Cathedral, Southwark, a Roman Catholic Cathedral designed by A. W. N. Pugin in 1840 and opened in 1848. For an account of the building of St. George's, see Phoebe Stanton, 'Pugin', London, 1971, pp. 57-59 and pp. 97-100. These tiles may have been removed after the cathedral was virtually destroyed during the Second World War.
Tiles of the same design were used by Pugin at St. Giles, Cheadle, Staffordshire, constructed between 1840 and 1846 and thus contemporaneous with St. George's, see Atterbury & Wainwright 1994, p. 146, pl. 265. The tile scheme at St. Giles was more complex than that of St. George's; both the circular and the square tiles are used to form the same pattern, but with additional elaborate tiles, see Jones 1993, p. 166.
See also Fired Earth 1991, no. 151.
- Location
- On display (G47/wall)
- Acquisition date
- 1980
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1980,0307.30