Windsor Castle
— — a thousand years of royal lights still on.
Not only on a wall.
“Windsor sits on a chalk bluff above the Thames, twenty-five miles west of London. The castle has held a royal household, in some form, since William the Conqueror raised the first motte around 1070. The Round Tower still rises from that original mound. St George's Chapel keeps the Garter banners overhead and Queen Elizabeth II's grave below. The standard above the tower tells you whether the king is at home. — from the studio
Windsor Castle, 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.
Windsor Castle stands above the River Thames in Berkshire, about 25 miles west of central London. William the Conqueror chose the site around 1070; the original motte underlies today's Round Tower. The castle covers roughly 13 acres of buildings and is the largest and longest-occupied castle in the world. It is one of three official residences of the British sovereign, alongside Buckingham Palace and the Palace of Holyroodhouse. The Royal Collection Trust manages public access, with the State Apartments, St George's Chapel, and the semi-State Rooms open most of the year.
The castle's outer face is largely Bagshot heath stone and Bath limestone, much of it added during Sir Jeffry Wyatville's 1820s remodelling for George IV. The Round Tower sits on William the Conqueror's eleventh-century earthwork; the present stonework dates from Henry II in the late twelfth century, raised again by Wyatville. St George's Chapel, begun by Edward IV in 1475 and completed under Henry VIII, is among the finest examples of Perpendicular Gothic in England. A 1992 fire destroyed nine principal rooms; the five-year restoration was completed in 1997.
Public access runs through the Royal Collection Trust. The State Apartments, St George's Chapel, and Queen Mary's Dolls' House are the headline rooms. The chapel closes to visitors during services; choral evensong is open to all and held most days the choir is in residence. The Changing of the Guard takes place in the Lower Ward on a published schedule. St George's Chapel holds the tombs of ten sovereigns, including Henry VIII, Charles I, George VI, and Queen Elizabeth II, who was interred in the King George VI Memorial Chapel in September 2022.