A Thirteenth-Century Tile Kiln Site at North Grange, Meaux, Beverley, Yorkshire
A Thirteenth-Century Tile Kiln Site at North Grange, Meaux, Beverley, Yorkshire
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位于约克郡贝弗利莫城北格兰奇的十三世纪瓷砖窑址
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1961
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E. Eames
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E. Eames
T H E first Cistercian houses to be founded in the north of England were Rievaulx and Fountains, both established in Yorkshire in I 132. The order expanded rapidly and reached the height of its power about a century later. During this period of prosperity in the mid-thirteenth century the northern Cistercian houses employed a form of tile paving which, though not peculiar to them, is rare elsewhere. This is termed for convenience tile mosaic because it depends for its effect upon patterns composed of small pieces ofspecially-shaped tile. Pavements of this type are known from the Cistercian abbeys ofByland, Fountains, Meaux, Melrose, Newbattle, Newminster, Rievaulx and Sawley. A plan illustrating the arrangement of a tile-mosaic pavement in the south transept chapels of the abbey church at Byland is illustrated on PL. xx by kind permission of the Ministry of Works, and photographs of a representative series of tile-mosaic patterns from the site of Meaux abbey are reproduced on PL. XXI. In this type of tile mosaic, the pattern, which depended basically upon the shape of the pieces of tile used, was emphasized by the employment of alternating colours. At most sites the colours used were green and yellow, but at Meaux abbey patterns were sometimes executed in brown and yellow. The tiles themselves were all made of red earthenware and the various colours were obtained by glazes. Brown was produced by painting a clear lead glaze direct on the red earthenware body of the tile, yellow by coating the surface of the tile with a plastic white slip before glazing it with a clear lead glaze. Green glaze was made by adding copper oxide to the lead glaze. This never mixed evenly and green glaze was always mottled or streaked. When placed direct on the red earthenware body it fired to a dark green, often near black. Light green was obtained by coating the tile with a plastic white slip before applying the glaze. Black could be made by the introduction of manganese into the glaze but was rarely used. Although a range offive colours was thus available, normally tile mosaic employed only two. The exact derivation of this type of pavement has not yet been fully worked out. It has been thought that it was developed in northern France, in imitation of Italian cosmati work, or so-called opus Alexandrinum, in which geometric patterns were executed in different coloured marbles. Tile had the advantage that it could be produced more cheaply than stone, but it was far less durable.