As well as the misericords the church at Great Malvern has many fine features, for example the Norman north and south arcades retained, almost incongruously, when later the building was heightened and enlarged. Also of interest are the medieval floor tiles uprooted intact during a programme of restoration and on display in the chancel.
Another fine collection of medieval tiles was that resulting from an informal excavation of the site of Meaux Cistercian abbey by the late Mr. Beauleu and stored, in the 1980s, at his house in Hessle. The business bearing his name still exists on Park Street, Hull but I don’t know the whereabouts of the collection of medieval tiles. In wealthy establishments hand-crafted and hand-painted tiles could be used to embellish both floors and walls.
Seen flowering recently on local walks; speedwell, bugle, foxglove, bluebell, daisy, periwinkle, wild strawberry, white deadnettle, red deadnettle (few), gorse, broom, charlock, marsh marigold, buttercup, broad-leaved dock, comfrey, cow parsley, hogweed (few). Generally in this area there is a decline in plant bio-diversity largely, in my opinion, as a result of too frequent mechanical flailing of wide grass verges beside small post-enclosure roads.