Josiah Spode 1 - Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
N 53° 00.223 W 002° 10.927
30U E 554883 N 5872996
Josiah Spode (1733 - 1797) is buried in the grounds of the Minster Church of St Peter Ad Vincula in Stoke.
Waymark Code: WMV7W3
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/11/2017
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Josiah Spode was an English potter and the founder of the English Spode pottery works which became famous for the quality of its wares.
Josiah Spode lived, worked, and died within the sound of the bells of St. Peters ad Vincula, parish church of Stoke-upon-Trent, and was buried in the grounds.
It was probably after the church was rebuilt between 1826-30 that a group of five chest tombs were errected for the Spode family. They are made of stone with simply carved panels between fluted pilasters, the tomb's inscriptions commemorate members of the family who died between 1797 and 1827.
These tombs are Grade 11 listed. (
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The inscription on Josiah Spode 1 tomb reads;
"Scared to the memory of
JOSIAH SPODE
Potter
who died 18th August 1797
aged 64"
Josiah Spode is often credited with the establishment of blue underglaze transfer printing in Staffordshire in 1781–84, and with the definition and introduction in c. 1789–91 of the improved formula for bone china (a form of soft-paste porcelain) which thereafter remained the standard for all English wares of this kind. Source: (
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