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St Peter’s Tiles part two |
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Tile 3 = Plain Penn tile 1350-1390 Tile 3 (fragment) 10.5 cms x 6 cms and 2.3 cms thick
Tile 6 = Glazed Low Countries import 1480-1600
Tile 6 (fragment) 8 cms x 5 cms and 2.1 cms thick
Tile 9 = Penn 1350-1390 Eames design 2353, 2354 or 2355 or something similar.
Tile 9 (fragment) 6.2 cms x 6.8 cms and 2 cms thick
Tile 10 = This has the same design as one of the Woking Palace blue and white Valencian tiles. This tile was probably acquired by the church after the Palace was abandoned in the 1620s.
Tile 10 (fragment) 6.6 cms x 6.5 cms and 2.4 cms thick
There is also a tile on the outside of the tower on the left hand side by the church entrance which may well have been a Penn tile. This tile which is weather worn with most of the detail worn away is embedded in the stonework presumably helping replace a building stone which has fallen away.
A further Penn tile measuring 107mm x 110mm at its extremes and 25mm thick was discovered in 1983 in the fields between the church and the Woking Palace site. This tile is most likely to have come from St Peter’s. It is now in the care of Woking Museum and Arts and Crafts Centre.
A fragment of a Penn tile has recently been discovered in the filling to the tower at St Mary’s, West Horsley.
9 cms x 9.5 cms and is 2 cms thick and originally possibly 12.5 cms square
This is a Penn tile of 1350-1390, Eames design type 2339 and St Mary's must be added to the list of Surrey churches with Penn tiles.
Sources English Tilers, Elizabeth Eames, British Museum, 1992 Medieval Paving Tiles in Buckinghamshire, C. Hohler, Records of Buckinghamshire, 1942, 14, 1-49, 99-132 Catalogue of Medieval Tiles, Elizabeth Eames, British Museum,1980 – Out of Print Windsor Castle and the Penn tile industry (Windsor: Medieval Archaeology, Art and Architecture of the Thames Valley. Maney Publishing. 2002) Dr Ian Betts, Building Materials Specialist, Museum of London Specialist Services
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