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Why are the floor tiles of two different asylum churches so similar?
Asylum here means the huge lunatic asylums (later called psychiatric hospitals) built in the 1800s. Many of them had a separate church in the grounds, in order to attend to the spiritual needs of the inmates (later called patients!). I am researching the built environment of one of them. I discovered an online photograph of the tiles of a different asylum church, and the similarities are evident. Is there something to this, or are they merely typical floor tiles of a late Victorian church?
Cane Hill Hospital, Coulsdon, Croydon
http://www.flickr.com/photos/silverstealth/2227057...
Glenside Hospital, Fishponds, Bristol
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42513145@N08/57723010...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42513145@N08/57728411...
3 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavourite answer
I worked one summer many years ago for a tile setter and He followed traditional patterns from memory on an old restoration. So there were similarities from place to place or from room to room.
Source(s): Those pictures were using the same formulas used when I worked for a tile setter in the early 1970s I would like to say if you talk with a tile setter you could glean an incredable amount of information - antoniusLv 71 decade ago
Might be the same religion or church that has a deal with the asylums for indoctrinating and then likely
receive some funds from government. Religion are always about where is to be collected.
Source(s): common knowledge - Anonymous1 decade ago
Maybe they have simular taste and the same theories
