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Provenance
Woodspring Priory, Somerset, September 1885 excavations
Private Collection, purchased April 1933
The lions in this armorial should be facing to dexter, but the block-cutter forgot to allow for their reversal when the clay was impressed. A tile fragment from Woodspring Priory with identical decoration is in Weston Museum, Weston-super-Mare. It is interesting to note that a similar tile bearing the arms of England with the same mistake from Somerset is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (accession no. 1136-1892), originally from the Mayor's Chapel, St Mark's Church, Bristol. Another from Wenlock Priory in Shropshire is in the British Museum (accession no. 1887,0307.11243).