- Object type
- Ceramics
- Date
- Production: 1300 - 1399
- Manufacturer
- Farrington Road Kiln
- Subject(s)
- Bearers of the Cross
- Dimensions
- Height x width x depth: 105 x 105 x 20mm
- Materials and technique
- Earthenware, white firing clay and lead glaze
- Production place
- London
- Related place(s)
- In use: Priory Church
- References
-
Betts, Ian M. Medieval Westminster Floor Tiles. Museum of London Archaeology Service, 2002.
Fig. p. 46
Page 60
Foakes, Tom, ed. Treasures: Faith, Care, Valour: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum of the Order of St John. Priory of England and the Islands of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, 2019.
Page 175 - Provenance
-
Excavated from St John's Priory Church site in 1900.
- Catalogue number
- 3565
Westminster Tile pattern W135
This 'Westminster' tile (named after Westminster Abbey, where similar tiles were first recognised, rather than the place of production) was discovered during excavations, and would have been used in the floor of the Priory Church in Clerkenwell. It was made in the fourteenth century, likely using a wooden stamp to impart the pattern, and then decorated with yellow glaze.