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Description: | From old card index: "16-pattern tile; square, worn. (Accidental damage)."
Scrolling foliage within 2 bands. Part of larger design. Slip inlay, unglazed (?). This abbey in Gloucestershire was founded either in 1245 or 1246 by Richard, Earl of Cornwall, younger brother of Henry III.
This Cistercian abbey was home to a relic, a vial of the Holy Blood, which made the abbey wealthy as a place of pilgrimage.
The blood was declared to be a fake when the monastery was closed in 1539, one of the last victims of the Dissolution of the
monasteries. The abbey was afterwards converted into a home.
Accession number: NCM 1963-354 | Subjects: | ceramics Medieval building components | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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