Find Spot record MDO4078 - Medieval floor tiles from the wall of St Mary's Church, Iwerne Minster

Two medieval floor tiles found in the wall of the churchyard of St Mary’s Church. One is a known type (Emden 221) the other is otherwise unknown and probably dates to about 1530.

Emden, A B, 1977, Medieval Decorated Tiles in Dorset (Monograph). SDO13180.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1988, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1987, 139 (Serial). SDO87.

'Following the collapse and subsequent repair of St Mary's churchyard wall two decorated floor-tiles were recovered by Mr R. Shaw. The first, with Emden's design 211 (A. B. Emden, Medieval Decorated Tiles in Dorset (1977)), is already recorded for Iwerne Minster and Shaftesbury Abbey. The second (Figure 14) is decorated with a design not recorded before. The surface is too worn to establish which slip method was used to produce it: it is certainly not inlaid. The form of the shield, which has arms not yet identified, suggests a late date, and may be paralleled with a tile bearing the arms of Salisbury, made c. 1530 for Christchurch Priory (E. C. Norton, 'The Medieval Floor-tiles of Christchurch Priory', PDNHAS, 102 (1980), 61-3 and design 54). Whether this design has any associateion with Iwerne Minster has yet to be dertermined.'

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