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Tile 1.
Arms of Clinton of
Maxstone or of Maxstone
Priory, Warwickshire.
Tile 2.
Arms of John de Warenne Earl of
Surrey (1231-1304), brother in law
of Henry III.
Tile 3.
Fragment of a set of two tiles
depicting the combat between
Richard I and Saladin.
Tile 4.
Arms of Richard Earl of
Cornwall, brother of Henry III
or of his son Edmund.
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 7.
Arms of Clare set diagonally,
four scoop marks set
underneath.
Tile 7. Back
Tile 8.
Richard of Cornwall reversed
set diagonally, two shallow
scoop marks underneath.
Tile 8. Back
Two shallow scoop marks
shown underneath.
Tile 9.
See friarn.co.uk
Tile 10.
Diagonally set spray of
three stems springing
from quarter of a ring.
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.
Example in Blake Museum
Tile 13.
Example in Blake Museum
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.
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.
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Tile 1.
Late 13th century/early 14th century tile
from the Grange, Woolavington.
Tiles
Tiles from Bridgwater Friary
The Grange Woolavington
St Johns Hospital
Tile 2.
A floor tile of a type commonly used in Somerset and Dorset.
It was found on the site of the Hospital of St. John at the
junction of Eastover and Broadway. The only other finds from
the site have been one skeleton and the base of a wall. The
hospital was a small religious house founded in about 1215.
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