Victorian Roof Tiles in Buckinghamshire
Victorian Roof Tiles
Ridge tiles and Victorian roof tiles on Victorian houses
The ridge of a roof in a house from the Victorian period would have had Victorian roof tiles with Terracotta ridge tiles used to great effect. From the start of the Victorian period these were very elaborate but became simpler by about 1900.
The Victorian use of ridge tiles created a beautiful focal point on the roof. Roof finials are antiqued to give an ornamental, aged appearance, and a weather resistant sealant is applied. Even modern uPVC conservatories still make good use of the Victorian inspired patterns you'll see listed below, of which there are many.
The Victorian roof tiles used were beautiful, but the extra attention to detail during this period took Victorian properties to a different level of excellence.
Some examples of Victorian roof tile ridges and finials used
- Double round arch Victorian roof tiles
- Pierced, ribbed and toothed Victorian roof tiles
- Double High Arch Crest Victorian roof tiles
- Triple Gothic Arch Crest Victorian roof tiles
- Toothed Crest Victorian roof tiles
- Fleur d'Lys Crest Victorian roof tiles
- Two Tooth Two Slot Crest Victorian roof tiles
- Punched Three Tooth Crest Victorian roof tiles
- Double Six Point Star Victorian roof tiles
- Two Wave Crest Victorian roof tiles
- Triple High Arch Crest Victorian roof tiles
- Double Round Arch Crest Victorian roof tiles
- Double Trefoil Crest Victorian roof tiles
- Three Slot Crest Victorian roof tiles
- Two Tooth Cogged Crest Victorian roof tiles
- Three Tooth Cogged Crest Victorian roof tiles
- Three Hole Crest Victorian roof tiles
- Plain Crest Victorian roof tiles
- Two Hole Hexagonal Crest Victorian roof tiles
- Roll-Top Victorian roof tiles
- Plain Ridge Tile Victorian roof tiles
As you can see, the Victorians loved their extravagant decorative roofs. The finials and ridge tiles complimented the Victorian roof tiles that made these properties look so stunning.
A little information about Buckinghamshire
History of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire
The Buckinghamshire town name is of Old English origin. Its first recorded name Aeglesburgh is thought to mean "Fort of Aegel", though nobody appears to know exactly who Aegel actually was. It is also possible that Aegeles-burh, the settlement's Saxon name, means "church-burgh", from the Welsh word eglwys meaning "a church".
Excavations in the Buckinghamshire town centre in 1985 found an Iron Age hill fort dating from the early 4th century BC. Aylesbury was one of the strongholds of the ancient Britons, from whom it was taken in the year 571 by Cutwulph, brother of Ceawlin, King of the West Saxons; and had a fortress or castle of some note, from which it probably derives its Saxon name.
Trade in the Buckinghamshire town
Aylesbury was a major market town in Anglo-Saxon times, the burial place of Saint Osgyth, whose shrine attracted pilgrims. The Early English parish church of St. Mary has a crypt beneath. Once thought to be Anglo-Saxon, it is now recognised as being of the same period as the medieval chapel above. At the Norman Conquest, the conquering king took the manor of Aylesbury for himself, and it is listed as a royal manor in the Domesday Book, 1086. Some lands here were granted by William the Conqueror to citizens upon the tenure that the owners should provide straw for the monarch's bed, sweet herbs for his chamber and two green geese and three eels for his table, whenever he should visit Aylesbury, not a bad deal by today's standards!
The Buckinghamshire town played a major role in war
In 1450, a religious institution called the Guild of St Mary was founded in Aylesbury by John Kemp, who was the Archbishop of York. Known popularly as the Guild of Our Lady it became a meeting place for local dignitaries and a hotbed of political intrigue. The guild was influential in the outcome of the Wars of the Roses. Its premises at the Chantry in Church Street, Aylesbury, are still there, though today the site is used mainly for retail.
Aylesbury was declared the new county town of Buckinghamshire in 1529 by King Henry VIII: Aylesbury Manor was among the many properties belonging to Thomas Boleyn, the father of Anne Boleyn, and it is rumoured that the change was made by the King to curry favour with the family.
The dreadful plague that swept the nation made a particularly strong impact on the Buckinghamshire town, when it literally decimated the population from 1603 to 1604.
The Buckinghamshire town played a large part in the English Civil War when it became a stronghold for the Parliamentarian forces, like many market towns a nursing-ground of Puritan sentiment and in 1642 the Battle of Aylesbury was fought and won by the Parliamentarians. Its proximity to Great Hampden, home of John Hampden has made of Hampden a local hero: his silhouette was used on the emblem of Aylesbury Vale District Council and his statue stands prominently in the Buckinghamshire town centre.
Legendary criminals tried in Buckinghamshire court
The Buckinghamshire town also received international publicity in 1963 when the culprits responsible for the Great Train Robbery were tried at Aylesbury Rural District Council Offices in Walton Street and sentenced at Aylesbury Crown Court. The robbery took place at a railway bridge at Ledburn, about six miles from the town.
James Henry Govier, the British painter and etcher, lived at Aylesbury and produced a number of works relating to the town including the church, canal, Walton, Aylesbury Gaol, the King's Head Inn and views of the town during the 1940s and 1950s, examples of which can be seen in the Buckinghamshire County Museum in Aylesbury.
The Buckinghamshire town is the birthplace of the Paralympic Games. During the 1948 Olympics in London, German-British neurologist Sir Ludwig Guttmann, set up a small sporting event for World War II veterans known as the World Wheelchair and Amputee Games at Stoke Mandeville Hospital Rehabilitation Facility in Aylesbury. This eventually led to the growth of the modern Paralympic Games that has been held immediately after every Summer Olympic Games since 1988.
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