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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
Mr. A. Wright, in a letter to our Secretary of 8th November 1923, called attention to a number of medieval tiles found in the church of Llangattock-nigh-Usk, a few miles from Abergavenny. With one exception they belong to the well-known Great Malvern series, made there and at Droitwich about the middle of the fifteenth century, as we know from the discovery of kilns at those places in 1833 and 1837 respectively, still containing some of the tiles. The Malvern tiles have been described in the past by two Fellows of this Society: Mr. Albert Way in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1844, pt. ii pp. 25–31 (reprinted in Nott's Malvern Priory Church), and Canon A. S. Porter in the Antiquary, vol. xxi (1890), pp. 71, in, 155. But a good deal remains to be said about them, and it may be worth while to take this opportunity of adding some notes about the types which occur at Llangattock.
page 382 note 1 , Nichols, Examples of Decorative Tiles, p. vGoogle Scholar ; , Shaw, Specimens of Tile Pavements, p. 2Google Scholar.
page 382 note 3 The Medieval Tiles in St. Mary's Church, Monmouth. By Griffinhoofe, H. G., Monmouth [1894].Google Scholar
page 383 note 1 Proc. Dorset Field Club, xxx (1909), p. 139Google Scholar: the Rev. R. G. Bartelot on specimens of the set in Fordington and Radipole churches.
page 383 note 2 , Habington, Survey of Worcestershire, ii, pp. 121, 122Google Scholar; , Nash, Hist, of Worcestershire, i, p. 598Google Scholar; The Antiquary, xxi, p. 112Google Scholar.
page 383 note 3 Victoria County History of Worcestershire, iii, 404.
page 384 note 1 Griffinhoofe, p. 19, who says that it also occurs at Tewkesbury, but I have been unable to find it now.
page 384 note 2 See the curious passage in Fuller's Church History of Gt. Britain, bk. vi (vol. iii, p. 432, in the Oxford edition, 1845)—‘Prophetical mottoes of the three last successive abbots of Gloucester’—to which our Fellow the Dean of Gloucester has called my attention.
page 385 note 1 , Carter, Specimens of Ancient Sculpturs, &c, ii, p. 6Google Scholar and plate; , Shaw, Specimens of Tile Pavements, pl. xliiGoogle Scholar.
