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The Maw Tiles from Sherborne Villa

With their vivid colours, smooth texture, and hard surface, Victorian floor tiles are an appealing and significant hybrid representing the union of art and industry, of neo-medieval taste and modern technology, of natural resources and chemical experiments. Such tiles produced by Maw and Company in the Ironbridge Gorge of Shropshire in the 1850s were immediately introduced into architectural practice in Canada at several Toronto sites. They document the rapid acceptance of ideas and the transmission of products fostered by the industrial revolution—from extraction, through production, to transportation, all powered by steam. Tile furnished by Maw and Company to pave one of these buildings, the long-demolished Sherborne Villa, is the focus of discussion here.