On a swift yomp from place to place I clocked these tiles. Turns out they're the tip of the icing on the cake.
They are on Hanbury Hall, on Hanbury Street and unbeknown to those that don't know, inside the building — that was originally built as a Huguenot Chapel in 1719 — are lots more tiles by illustrator and ceramicist Paul Bommer.
I could pretend to know a lot about Bommer's Deft style tiles but all I know is, of course, what I found by Googling 'Huguenots of Spitalfields tiles'. There's quite a lot out there, including loads of images on spitalfieldslife.com of many beautiful tiles, each representing some part of Spitalfields' story.
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