An ornamental decoration of gold mosaics can clearly be seen on the background of the reredos on the high altar. The floor of the apse may also be of Salviati mosaics.
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Philip Pankhurst from Wikimedia Commons
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 124.
Salviati, Antonio. On mosaics (generally). 1865. 51.
The Ecclesiologist. New Series Volume 23. London: Joseph Masters, 1865. 213.
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