Welcome to Tile Heaven, the greatest selection of antique tiles on the internet. We have victorian tiles of all styles from famous companies like Minton, Wedgwood and others, tiles from the arts & crafts and aesthetic movements, art nouveau tiles, majolica tiles, transfer printed tiles, handpainted tiles and many more unusual tiles, mostly from England and from the period 1860 - 1930.

Antique tiles are great display items that can find a place in almost any home. Easy to display, the straight edges mean they easily sit on a shelf or can be easily framed and similar to plates they may also be mounted on plate stands or in plate hangers. Plates are probably the most similar collectables but tiles offer a vastly greater range of designs and colours.

Antique tiles make a great and unique gift and are highly decorative. With brilliant glazes and bright colours antique tiles have a near universal appeal, they make a more personalised gift than a product from a regular store and with such a range of designs there are tiles to suit almost every taste and interest. It is no wonder that there are many collectors of English antique tiles around the world but there are many more people who just have a few nice tiles to display and use.

Make a feature, antique tiles can be used to make that special centrepiece or focal point in a backsplash or table top, a few great designs can make all the difference to an area of plain tiles and antique tiles are still often less expensive and than better quality bespoke contemporary tiles. Tiles have a traditional use as trivets or tea pot stands and flat tiles are well suited to the role. All our tiles have been professionally cleaned and have at most very minimal adhesive residue so can be readily installed or comfortably sit on display stands and in frames.

Antique tiles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries are unique the brilliance of the glazes is unequalled in more modern tiles. Many processes then used are now prohibited in modern tile manufacture due to health and safety concerns for the workers.

With fewer things to spend money compared to nowadays a higher proportion of income was spent on homes and much of that was on the hi-tech decorative objects of the day. Tiles were prominent features in homes of the day and highly prized, around 1900 an average worker could buy two fairly ordinary tiles with their daily wage, just one of the best tiles in the larger sizes of 8' x 8" or 12" x 6" could cost close to a week's wage. Tiles were used both for installation and as pure objéts d'art as is witnessed by the tiles from around 1900 that we see in their original frames.

The range and diversity of Victorian and Edwardian tiles continues to amaze even after over 30 years we still see tiles we have never seen before almost daily. The camera and screen can not fully portray the wonder of many of the tiles, like a print of a great oil painting does not do justice to the master. Whilst not all of the beauty can be captured much of it can, so why not browse away and have some fun :-)

We are confident that here you will see the best selection of quality antique tiles you will find anywhere, we are careful with our buying, concientious in our cleaning and scrupulous with our descriptions. The comment we get most often regarding condition is "better than described", our good condition is better than many others excellent, our mint condition are mint, not mint with just a few chips and ......

Antique tiles are usually classed as 'architectural antique 'or 'decorative arts', few of our tiles have been removed from walls or floors so decorative arts is a more accurate description. They were literally works of art fitted in to and enhance larger items, to add brightness and colour to the furniture and fireplaces that they were fitted in.

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The altogether page is updated first when new tiles are listed, updates to other pages are effected soon afterwards. New and updated items are at the top of the page.

We rarely sell encaustic tiles (unglazed floor tiles) which are often referred to as Minton tiles especially by estate agents but Mintons were just one of many companies making them. We do not sell plain floor or wall tiles.