Monument record CRT 025 - Medieval tiled floor identified during monitoring at St Mary's Church

Two visits were made to St Mary's Church, Cratfield to monitor the ground works associated with the installation of a 'tea-point' in the tower. The floor within the tower was made from thick and hand-hewn elm boards. The date of the planks is unknown but they look to be of some antiquity although their use as a floor in this context dates from no earlier than the middle of the 19th century and they had been raised with the addition of secondary joists more recently. Beneath the timber floor were the remains of the medieval tiled floor which once ran at a single, continuous level through to the nave. The in situ tiles were plain and unglazed but fragments of glazed orange tiles, probably Flemish and dating to the 14th-15th century, were also recovered (S1).