Floor tile
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glazed earthenware
Measurements
78 x 130 x 25 mm
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 1991017.55
Summary
Floor tile - Design 31 - Fragment - The tile has a mid frieze of scrolls and a fimbriated rosette. The tile has olive and light olive glaze. From a collection of tiles commissioned for Lacock Abbey by William Sharington. Manufactured between 1550-3. Part of a pattern with designs 1 (or 2), 3, 6, 7, 8 and 28. (Group A – Burnett-Brown Tile Collection Report). The tile fragment is in stable condition and is the bottom half of a tile. The tile is very dark, likely from heat damage, and therefore the design is very obscured. The imprint of the design is very faint but key details are identifiable. All slip, except a very small patch at the bottom, has gone. There is a small amount of glaze on the body of the fragment, particularly along the bottom. There is some mortar along the cut edge and the opposite edge appears to have been cut away underneath and filled with mortar to fit a space. On the reverse is a single, central scoop.