{"id":251,"date":"2009-03-18T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/?p=251"},"modified":"2009-03-18T14:32:29","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T14:32:29","slug":"tewkesbury-tiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251","title":{"rendered":"tewkesbury tiles: medieval heraldic dingbats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hidden treasures that has rewarded my browsing in <i>The Ancestor<\/i> (of which I <a href=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/247\">recently bought a set of all twelve volumes<\/a> in their original publisher&#8217;s bindings), is a handsome set of cuts made after fourteenth-century encaustic floor tiles from Tewkesbury Abbey.  See Hal Hall, &#8220;Notes on the Tiles at Tewkesbury Abbey,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/ancestorquarterl09londuoft\"><i>The Ancestor<\/i> 9 (1904), 46-64<\/a>.  The digital copy of the journal (linked here) contains fine scans of these, of which the following sample set of eight (there are several others) are reduced in size and flattened nearly to black-and-white.  The captions here are as given in the article.  Excellent source of dingbats for a heraldry blog!<\/p>\n<div align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t1s.gif\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Arms of Somerville of Gloucestershire<\/i><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t2s.gif\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Beauchamp of Holt and an uncertain shield<\/i><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t3.gif\"\/><br \/>\n<i> Arms attributed to Robert Fitz Hamon, impaled with the Cross of the Abbey <\/i><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t4s.gif\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Newburgh and Despenser<\/i><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t5s.gif\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Arms of Newburgh Earls of Warwick, with the Badge of the Chained Bear<\/i><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t6s.gif\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Tiles made up of fragments of the arms of Despenser and Beauchamp, with others<\/i><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t7s.gif\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Beauchamp of Holt and Beauchamp of Powyck<\/i><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t8s.gif\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Arms of Cobham or Peyvre<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hidden treasures that has rewarded my browsing in The Ancestor (of which I recently bought a set of all twelve volumes in their original publisher&#8217;s bindings), is a handsome set of cuts made after fourteenth-century encaustic floor tiles from Tewkesbury Abbey. See Hal Hall, &#8220;Notes on the Tiles at Tewkesbury Abbey,&#8221; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heraldry","category-medievalia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>tewkesbury tiles: medieval heraldic dingbats - a genealogist&#039;s sketchbook<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"tewkesbury tiles: medieval heraldic dingbats - a genealogist&#039;s sketchbook\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One of the hidden treasures that has rewarded my browsing in The Ancestor (of which I recently bought a set of all twelve volumes in their original publisher&#8217;s bindings), is a handsome set of cuts made after fourteenth-century encaustic floor tiles from Tewkesbury Abbey. See Hal Hall, &#8220;Notes on the Tiles at Tewkesbury Abbey,&#8221; The [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"a genealogist&#039;s sketchbook\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-03-18T13:31:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2009-03-18T14:32:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t1s.gif\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nat Taylor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nat Taylor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nat Taylor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/#\/schema\/person\/813beaf90cc5894d9b08c1aedc7b96e9\"},\"headline\":\"tewkesbury tiles: medieval heraldic dingbats\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-03-18T13:31:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-03-18T14:32:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251\"},\"wordCount\":181,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/#\/schema\/person\/813beaf90cc5894d9b08c1aedc7b96e9\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t1s.gif\",\"articleSection\":[\"heraldry\",\"medievalia\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251\",\"name\":\"tewkesbury tiles: medieval heraldic dingbats - a genealogist&#039;s sketchbook\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t1s.gif\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-03-18T13:31:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-03-18T14:32:29+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t1s.gif\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t1s.gif\",\"width\":\"346\",\"height\":\"346\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"tewkesbury tiles: medieval heraldic dingbats\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/\",\"name\":\"a genealogist's sketchbook\",\"description\":\"medieval and modern genealogy, memory and history \u2014 part of nltaylor.net\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/#\/schema\/person\/813beaf90cc5894d9b08c1aedc7b96e9\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/#\/schema\/person\/813beaf90cc5894d9b08c1aedc7b96e9\",\"name\":\"Nat Taylor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/moonman.jpg\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/moonman.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/moonman.jpg\",\"width\":349,\"height\":366,\"caption\":\"Nat Taylor\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/moonman.jpg\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/author\/nat\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"tewkesbury tiles: medieval heraldic dingbats - a genealogist&#039;s sketchbook","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"tewkesbury tiles: medieval heraldic dingbats - a genealogist&#039;s sketchbook","og_description":"One of the hidden treasures that has rewarded my browsing in The Ancestor (of which I recently bought a set of all twelve volumes in their original publisher&#8217;s bindings), is a handsome set of cuts made after fourteenth-century encaustic floor tiles from Tewkesbury Abbey. See Hal Hall, &#8220;Notes on the Tiles at Tewkesbury Abbey,&#8221; The [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251","og_site_name":"a genealogist&#039;s sketchbook","article_published_time":"2009-03-18T13:31:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2009-03-18T14:32:29+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t1s.gif","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Nat Taylor","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nat Taylor","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251"},"author":{"name":"Nat Taylor","@id":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/#\/schema\/person\/813beaf90cc5894d9b08c1aedc7b96e9"},"headline":"tewkesbury tiles: medieval heraldic dingbats","datePublished":"2009-03-18T13:31:00+00:00","dateModified":"2009-03-18T14:32:29+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251"},"wordCount":181,"commentCount":1,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/#\/schema\/person\/813beaf90cc5894d9b08c1aedc7b96e9"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t1s.gif","articleSection":["heraldry","medievalia"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251","url":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251","name":"tewkesbury tiles: medieval heraldic dingbats - a genealogist&#039;s sketchbook","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t1s.gif","datePublished":"2009-03-18T13:31:00+00:00","dateModified":"2009-03-18T14:32:29+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t1s.gif","contentUrl":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t1s.gif","width":"346","height":"346"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/251#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"tewkesbury tiles: medieval heraldic dingbats"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/#website","url":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/","name":"a genealogist's sketchbook","description":"medieval and modern genealogy, memory and history \u2014 part of nltaylor.net","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/#\/schema\/person\/813beaf90cc5894d9b08c1aedc7b96e9"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/#\/schema\/person\/813beaf90cc5894d9b08c1aedc7b96e9","name":"Nat Taylor","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/moonman.jpg","url":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/moonman.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/moonman.jpg","width":349,"height":366,"caption":"Nat Taylor"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/moonman.jpg"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook"],"url":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/author\/nat"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ydid-43","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}