Antient Irish pavement tiles, exhibiting thirty-two patterns : illustrated by forty engravings, after the originals, existing in St. Patrick's Cathedral, and Howth, Mellifont, and Newtown Abbeys
Thomas Oldham's 1842 plate book records medieval Irish pavement tiles from St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin and from Howth, Mellifont and Newtown abbeys, published in Dublin and London for antiquaries and church builders. The plates show red and cream diamond tiles with fleur-de-lis, quatrefoil, trefoil and interlaced knot patterns, each shown large with a smaller companion design beneath, giving designers a compact vocabulary of medieval tile geometry for flooring and surface pattern.
