TileWeb: Cheshire (C511)

	TileWeb: Paving-tile Watercolours Online	The Collections: •Parker-Hore
	The Parker-Hore Archive Collection of Watercolours of Paving-tiles
	held in Worcester and in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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County:	Cheshire	Click on Image to see original watercolour
Town/Village:	Chester
Place Details:	St John's church crypt
Artist and Date:
Iconography:	Inscription
Copied from (Collection):	Soc of Antiq Ren II p 189
Watercolour Ref. No.:	C511
Notebook: FMP
Portfolio: Jas P,
Notebook: IH	2
Other details:	A centre tile on which the sacred monogram is impressed. The letters IHS and IHC in reality stand for the Greek name of Jesus, only that the signia was written diversely, even so early as the 6th century and later. This IHETE and IHCOTE for Jesus are convertible. See Fry's Pantographia. In pencil: ….

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