Blackfriars mosaic at Leicester Central | |
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| L3116. Thought to have been laid between 70 and 85 AD, this is the Blackfriars tessellated Roman pavement. First discovered in 1832 during the digging of foundations for a house at 53 Jewry Wall Street, the pavement lay beneath the proposed site of the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway's station at Leicester which was to be built as part of the London Extension. The company agreed to provide access to the pavement and to ensure its preservation, and so built this room, known as the mosaic chamber. Following the line's closure in 1969, and suffering from deterioration, the pavement was lifted in the 1970s and moved to the city's Jewry Wall Museum. Note the small tiled arch at the back of the room: this surrounds a fragment of the original Roman wall. | |
| Publisher | |
| Contributor | Leicester City Council |
| Creator | attribution - Unknown |
| Date | creation - circa 1930 |
| Type | Photographs - black and white |
| Format | dimension.H - 140mm dimension.W - 199mm |
| Identifier | 736 ' 1977 |
| Source | The Jewry Wall Museum, Leicester |
| Language | EN |
| Relation | part of - Museum History File - 736 ' 1977 |
| Coverage | Location.Current Repository - The Jewry Wall Museum, Leicester Location.Creation Site - Leicester Central Station, Leicester (O.S. Ref: 458100 304700) period - circa 1930 |
| Rights | Leicester City Council |
| OS | 458100 304700 |
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