Floor tile
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glazed Earthenware
Measurements
133 x 132 x 25 mm
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 1545816.10
Summary
Floor Tile - Design 13 – The depicts a heraldic design, with a stag trippant (facing right) between three phaeons with a bordure engrailed, and stylised flowers in each corner. These are the arms of Archbishop Parker of Gloucester Cathedral. The fabric of the tile has straight sides or only a very slight bevel, plus a light green/yellow glaze over the slip and dark olive glaze over the body. (Group C – Burnett-Brown Tile Collection Report). The tile is badly worn in one corner where there is a large oval area of damage and the corner to its left is chipped. There remaining surface retains approximately two thirds of its slip, and there are small patches of green and yellow glaze. There is glaze on two edges of the tile.
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs Petronella Burnett-Brown December 2009.