TERllA-COTTA ROOFING-TILES. 



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picted in the drawings. In all the above cases the normal 

 tile (imb.) is the one indicated. A complete view of a 

 honse is shown in a MS. of the fonrteenth century, and 

 this represents the flat tile rounded at its lower end. In 

 the same MS. flat tiles are shown arranged in a form often 

 seen in the arrangement of slates in England to-day, where 

 an interspace of an inch or more is left between contiguous 

 slates in an horizontal line. From this time on, the flat tile 

 is the only one shown in the various drawings given. It 

 would seeai by this that the pan tile was introduced from 

 Belo:ium within recent centuries. 



In consequence of the frequency of fires it was enacted 

 in the first year of Richard I (1189) that the lower story 

 of all houses in the City of London should be built with 

 stone and the roofs covered with slate or tile (Pictorial 

 History of England, Vol. ii, p. 230). In the fourteenth 

 century, London houses were generally roofed with tiles. 



" In taking down part of a late Norman building in 

 Southwark some years ago, to make the approaches to the 

 present London bridge, some tiles were found built into the 

 wall and may have formed part of the original structure. 

 They were thirteen inches by eight inches and varied in 



