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A Lost Tile Pavement at Tewkesbury Abbey and an Early Fourteenth-Century Tile Factory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

Alan G. Vince  and
Tony Wilmott
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The products of a tilery working in the Welsh marches in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries with a probable production centre at Hereford, can be identified at a number of sites through petrological analysis. The accuracy of the heraldic tiles allows careful analysis from which dates, and possible commissions may be identified.

The tilery began the production of accurate heraldic designs c. 1260. These were augmented by Chertsey-Halesown copies around the turn of the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries. The production of heraldic tiles was stepped up in the 1320s, as a result of the filling of at least one large order, for the chapel of St Peter at Ludlow Castle, in 1328. A further commission was made between 1328 and 1339, for the church at Bredon. Probably as early as the 1330s the Malvern Chase industry was beginning, and this industry had acquired stamps from the Hereford tilers by the middle of the century.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 71 , September 1991 , pp. 138 - 173
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1991

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