The Minton Encaustic Tiles in St Stephen's Hall, were, as elsewhere, designed by A.W. Pugin. He thought these examples particularly successful, for he wrote to Minton in 1852:

I declare your St Stephen's tiles the very finest done in the tile way, really vastly superior to any ancient work. In fact they are the best tiles in the world!
- Pugin

Proof, if proof were needed, that Pugin did not see his endlessly fertile Gothic inventions as being mere imitation of medieval originals.