Wednesday, December 26, 2012

St. John the Apostle Torquay

Built 1861-73, G.E. Street designed this church that Nikolaus Pevsner called "one of the leading centres of late C19 Anglo-Catholicism".


Church nave with Salviati mosaics on the North aisle on the left of the picture.


North aisle mosaics: scenes from the life of St. John


  



Sources:
Nikolaus Pevsner, "Buildings of England: Devon," London: 1952-1989: P.849
British Listed Buildings

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