Medieval Roof Titles

Nails were traditionally of copper.

Medieval roof titles.

Imbrex and tegula an ancient roman pattern of curved and flat tiles that make rain channels on a roof. Peg and ridge tile. Fired clay roof tiles were well established as the standard castle roof in medieval france. Roman tiles flat in the middle with a concave curve at one end and a convex curve at the other to allow interlocking.

It turns out that clay roof tiles had their own name. Jan 27 2020 ceramic floor or wall tiles dating to the medieval period in europe. Note the fragment with a hole through it which was likely hung from the roof with a nail and the v shaped fragment which probably sat at the apex of the roof. Medieval roof tiles image via wikimedia commons fragments of roof tiles from the late medieval or early post medieval period 1400 1600 found in herefordshire england.

Red reddish orange grey core commonly present. But i never put clay roof tiles together with medieval england i assumed that roofs were thatch stone or slate. Some of the earliest know medieval floor tiles found in britain are mosaics. Nobility rank coronets nobility crowns.

Clay tiles were expensive but fireproof so a better choice than thatch. Medieval and post medieval roof tile fabrics. Pantiles with an s shaped profile allowing adjacent tiles to interlock. Knights or a mounted warriors who swore allegiance to their sovereign and promised to fight for him in exchange for an allocation of land usually together with serfs.

They go back to the ancient greeks who used tile in an s shape. The tiles replaced extremely fire prone thatched roofs. They were cut out using a template and had little or no pattern on them apart from a few which would have been the centrepiece of a large design. Building with slate roof tiles slate was commonly used as a roofing material for rich houses due to its low water absorption properties fixing is typically with double nails onto timber battens england and wales or nailed directly onto timber sarking boards scotland and northern ireland.

By utilising various coloured glazes intricate patterns could be created. Nobility origin of medieval nobility nobility titles and ranks in europe. Nb pantile fabrics are listed separately below. Occurrence is occurrence in london.

Fine fabric with scatter of muscovite mica up to 0 05mm red iron oxide and calcium carbonate up to 1mm.