Friary Tiles


Tile 1.
Tile 1.
Arms of Clinton of Maxstone or of Maxstone Priory, Warwickshire.
Tile 2.
Tile 2.
Arms of John de Warenne Earl of Surrey (1231-1304), brother in law of Henry III.
Tile 3.
Tile 3.
Fragment of a set of two tiles depicting the combat between Richard I and Saladin.
Tile 4.
Tile 4.
Arms of Richard Earl of Cornwall, brother of Henry III or of his son Edmund.
Tile 5.
Tile 5.
The arms of John of Eltham Earl of Cornwall 1316-1336, son of Edward II and brother of Edward III.
Tile 6.
Tile 6.
Tile 7.
Tile 7.
Arms of Clare set diagonally, four scoop marks set underneath.
Tile 7. Back
Tile 7. Back
Tile 8.
Tile 8.
Richard of Cornwall reversed set diagonally, two shallow scoop marks underneath.
Tile 8. Back
Tile 8. Back
Two shallow scoop marks shown underneath.
Tile 9.
Tile 9.
See friarn.co.uk
Tile 10.
Tile 10.
Diagonally set spray of three stems springing from quarter of a ring.
Tile 11.
Tile 11.
Possibly a previously undocumented tile. Not documented in Decorated Medieval Floor Tiles of Somerset (Barbara J. Lowe), Mediaeval Floor Tiles (Jane A. Wight), Journal of the British Archaeological Association (Jane Harcourt) or A Late Thirteenth-Century Tile-Pavement at Cleve Abbey (J. B. Ward Perkins.
Tile 12.
Tile 12.
Eaqmple in BM
Tile 13.
Tile 13.
Example in BM
Tile 14.
Tile 14.
Possibly a previously undocumented tile. Not documented in Decorated Medieval Floor Tiles of Somerset (Barbara J. Lowe), Mediaeval Floor Tiles (Jane A. Wight), Journal of the British Archaeological Association (Jane Harcourt) or A Late Thirteenth-Century Tile-Pavement at Cleve Abbey (J. B. Ward Perkins.
Tile 15.
Tile 15.
Possibly a previously undocumented tile. Not documented in Decorated Medieval Floor Tiles of Somerset (Barbara J. Lowe), Mediaeval Floor Tiles (Jane A. Wight), Journal of the British Archaeological Association (Jane Harcourt) or A Late Thirteenth-Century Tile-Pavement at Cleve Abbey (J. B. Ward Perkins.