Chalcombe

Inlaid floor tile making (medieval)

Open to the public

Yes, by appointment only

Provides courses or training

Yes

Available for craft fairs

Available for educational events only

Contact

Mountwood House Mountwood Hs, Biddenfield Ln,
Southampton
Hampshire
United Kingdom
SO32 2HP

Tom Chamberlain

t: 07860966377

m: 07860966377

e: [email protected]

About

I have been making pottery since I was a teenager. I became interested in encaustic tiles after a visit to the Hospital of St Cross in Winchester and then discovering Winchester had three world class collections of medieval floor tiles. Currently make tiles with prepared commercial clays but starting to experiment with home-dug wild clays. Tile designs are replica's of the Wessex school as found in Winchester and nearby areas. Project for 2024 is to reproduce the tile roundel in Muchelney Church using home dug clay.

Projects in 2025 include
Using home dug clay
Recreating the roundel found at Muchelney Abbey, Somerset
Recreating the tile mosaics found at the Cistercian Abbeys in Yorkshire

I am archiving my progress and my learnings on the Quarto Blog website at https://tomchamberlain.quarto.pub I am striving to create a permanent record of my progress in learning how to re-create medieval floor tiles as there is so little information currently available in the public domain.