Tile

On display

V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 144, The Headley Trust Gallery

This object consists of 210 parts, some of which may be located elsewhere.

Artist/Maker	Craven Dunnill & Co. (maker)
Place of origin	Ironbridge (made)

Many of the tiles forming this segment of flooring show the inlaid technique. The inlaid technique, first used in the medieval period, was taken up again in England in the 1830s, during the Gothic revival. Inlaid tiles were used in corridors and hallways in secular buildings, but they are most often found as church floors. These are from the 19th-century Anglican church on the Brompton Road, next to the V&A.

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Categories	Ceramics Tiles
Object type	Tile
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Materials and techniques	Eartheware, high and low fired and inlaid Earthenware
Brief description	One of two hundred and ten tiles, earthenware, tan and sand encaustic squares, quatrefoil in circle, 4 dots, Mark: CRAVEN DUNNILL & CO / JACKFIELD SALOP, Craven Dunnill & Co. Ltd. Jackfield Tileworks, Ironbridge, Shropshire. England, 1881
Physical description	Group of 210 ceramic tiles, high and low fired, including encaustic and forming a pattern
Dimensions	Various dimensions see V&A register in Ceramics and Glass Dept.
Marks and inscriptions	(Various marks see V&A register in Ceramics and Glass Dept.) Transliteration .
Credit line	Gift of Holy Trinity Church, Brompton
Object history	From the floors of Holy Trinity Church, Brompton.
Summary	Many of the tiles forming this segment of flooring show the inlaid technique. The inlaid technique, first used in the medieval period, was taken up again in England in the 1830s, during the Gothic revival. Inlaid tiles were used in corridors and hallways in secular buildings, but they are most often found as church floors. These are from the 19th-century Anglican church on the Brompton Road, next to the V&A.
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	C.76:1-1994

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Record created	March 9, 1999
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O10557/tile-craven-dunnill/

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