Cathedral Church of St. Edmundsbury

In 1914, the former St. James' of Bury St. Edmunds became the cathedral church of the newly created Diocese of Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The original church was built in the Norman style and the nave dates to the early 16th century, but much of the current building was rebuilt and expanded since the 1960s. 

St. James' in 1779. Note separate Norman tower on the right.

St. James' circa 1870 after Scott's renovation.

St. James' in 2014 with its new, connected tower.

The redesigned chancel that G.G. Scott added in 1865-69 contained Salviati mosaics within alabaster reredos made by Farmer and Brindley and financed by bankers Oakes and Bevan. The raised quatrefoil center contained an alabaster cross flanked by the symbols for Alpha, Omega and XP on a golden mosaic base. The spandrils contained symbols of the Evangelists, as well as a pelican and the Holy lamb.

The chancel circa 1922 with the Salviati mosaics.

While the Baptismal font from 1870 (also by Scott) and numerous Victorian stained glass windows survived 20th century renovations, the reredos were removed and their fate is unclear.

Sources:

The National Archives. Cathedral Church of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds. Accessed January 30, 2022.
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 124.
Tymms, Samuel. "A Handbook of Bury St. Edmunds in the County of Suffolk." 6th ed. London, 1891. p. 57.
Churches and Family Tree. Stepneyrobarts blog post: Bury St. Edmunds. Accessed January 30, 2022.
St. Edmundsbury Cathedral. Accessed January 30, 2022.
Wikipedia, Photo by David Iliff: St. Edmundsbury Cathedral.
St. Edmundsbury Chronicle. Accessed January 30, 2022.
An antique line engraving published by F. Lankester. Circa 1870. Later coloured by hand.
Francis Frith: Bury St. Edmonds.

St. Paul's Cathedral, Dundee

Located on the High Street in Dundee, this Scottish Episcopal church was built 1853-55 to designs by G.G. Scott. Constructed of brown sandstone in the Gothic Revival style, it wasn't dedicated until ten years later and it wasn't raised to cathedral status until 1905.

The large Salviati mosaic of Christ in Glory in the Clayton & Bell designed reredos dates to 1865.

From an 1887 guide to St. Paul's: "An elaborate piece of alabaster work with shafts of various marbles, and enclosing a rich piece of mosaic by Salviati of Venice, designed by Messrs Clayton & Bell. The subject is our Blessed Lord in glory, surrounded by adoring angels. The Central Figure is of great dignity - seated and crowned - holding in one hand the cross-crowned orb of the world, and the other uplifted in benediction. Immediately beneath are a circle of the cherubim and seraphim, while below angel figures, two with censers, and the rest with various musical instruments, are grouped in graceful order. The plinth of the reredos is inlaid with malachite and other stones, and the whole is surmounted with some fine pinnacles, terminating in the symbolic figure of a pelican feeding her young with her blood, with angel figures on either side."

Sources:

Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 125.

Places of Worship in Scotland. Accessed January 30, 2022.

Wikipedia: St. Paul's Cathedral, Dundee

Scotland's Churches Trust. Accessed January 30, 2022.

"St. Paul's Cathedral: Dundee's Rock of Ages." The Courier. May 28, 2016.

CANMORE: Dundee, Castle Hill. Accessed January 30, 2022.

Guide to St. Paul's, 1887. Courtesy of Jeremy Auld. April 9, 2019.