Warrington
— — a river-crossing town that never moved.
Not only on a wall.
“A Cheshire town on the River Mersey, roughly halfway between Liverpool and Manchester. Warrington has been a river crossing since Roman times and a market town since the thirteenth century. The Industrial Revolution made it a maker of wire, soap, and beer. The Warrington Wolves play rugby league at the Halliwell Jones Stadium, and the centre still holds its weekly market a short walk from the parish church spire. — from the studio
Warrington, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Warrington is a town in Cheshire, North West England, sitting on the River Mersey between Liverpool to the west and Manchester to the east. The borough has a population of roughly two hundred and ten thousand. The Romans established a settlement at the lowest crossing point of the Mersey on the road between Chester and York; the modern town grew around that ford. Warrington became a unitary authority in 1998 and remains a key node on the M6, M56, and M62 motorways and on the West Coast Main Line.
The town was granted a royal market charter in 1255 by Henry III, and the Friday market has run more or less continuously since. The Industrial Revolution reshaped Warrington in the nineteenth century: Joseph Crosfield's soap and chemical works opened in 1814, the Whitecross wire works in 1864, and Greenall Whitley's brewery had been pouring since 1762. The town gave its name to the 1981 Warrington New Town designation that absorbed Birchwood and Westbrook, and the Manchester Ship Canal, opened in 1894, runs along its southern edge.
The Parish Church of St Elphin sits east of the town centre on a site of Christian worship since the seventh century. The current sandstone building is largely thirteenth- and fourteenth-century, with a spire rebuilt in 1860 by Frederick and Horace Francis that reaches about eighty-five metres. It is the third tallest parish church spire in England, after Louth and St Walburge's in Preston. The Bank Quay transporter bridge, built in 1916 to carry chemical traffic across the Mersey for Crosfield's, still stands as a grade II listed structure.