Optical toy producing the illusion of moving images, popular during the Victorian era.
Piano nobile
Main floor of a Palladian or Georgian building.
Picquot ware
Type of tableware made from a magnesium-aluminium alloy called magnailium.
Piece Hall
Rare example of a large-scale cloth hall – an exchange for trading woollen and worsted cloth "pieces" – that is largely intact.
Pierre Adolphe Valette
French Impressionist painter who taught at the Manchester School of Art from 1906 until 1920.
Pilaster
Decorative architectural element used to give the appearance of a supporting column, to articulate an extent of wall.
Pilkington’s Lancastrian Pottery & Tiles
Former manufacturer of tiles, vases and bowls established in 1892, best remembered for their fine glazes such as Royal Lancastrian.
Pillory
Device used to publicly humiliate those found guilty of minor offences.
Pinfold
Enclosure in which stray domestic animals, cattle, sheep, pigs, geese were kept until their owners paid a fine to collect them.
Piscina
Small basin in a Christian church used to clean the priest's hands and the sacred vessels used at Mass.
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