Floor
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1200 - 1300
Materials
Clay
Place of origin
Hampshire
Collection
Mottisfont, Hampshire
NT 770198
Summary
Floor in the Summer House, Mottisfont Abbey. Made up of re-used medieval encaustic, or inlaid floor tiles. Red clay with impressed patterns then filled with white clay. Originally made and laid in the buildings associated with Mottisfont Priory, probably the Priory church or Chapter House. Re-laid in their current location and pattern in the 19th Century. Hamphshire, 1200-1300.
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust with Mottisfont Abbey and Estate by Maud Russell's Memorandum of Wishes, 1957.
References
Eames 1985: Elizabeth Eames, English Medieval Tiles London: British Museum, 1985, pp.36-51 Greenfield 1892: B.W. Greenfield, 'Encaustic Tiles of the Middle Ages, especially those found in the south of Hampshire', Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club & Archaeological Society, 2 (part 2) (1892), pp.141-165. Knapp 1954: G. E. C. Knapp, The Medieval Paving Tiles of the Alton Area of North-East Hampshire', Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club & Archaeological Society, 18 (part 3) (1954), pp.289-312 Norton 1974: E. C. Norton, 'The Medieval Paving Tiles of Winchester College', Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club & Archaeological Society, 31 (1974), pp.23-41.