Showing posts with label 1871. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1871. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Salisbury Chapel, St. Etheldreda Church

Parts of the Hatfield Parish church date to the 13th century. David Brandon rebuilt the nave in 1872 in a Victorian style.


The north chapel holding the tomb of the 1st Earl of Salisbury Robert Cecil was added in 1618 by his son. The third Marquess had the interior of the chapel adorned with Venetian mosaics by Salviati in 1871.





The Caen marble reredos showing the Marys at the Cross, flanked by St. Etheldreda and St. Alban on either side was carved by Thomas Earp. It was also decorated with Venetian mosaics by Salviati.


Sources:
Pevsner, Nikolaus and Bridget Cherry. Buildings of England: Hertfordshire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 162.
Handbook for Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, and Huntingdonshire. London: John Murray, 1895. 37.
Images of Europe
Richard Rogerson on Geograph
Chris Beckett's flickr Photostream
Paul Hart on Panoramio
Ian A. Wood's flickr Photostream

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Church of St. John the Baptist, Kidmore End

This church was built in 1852 by architect Arthur Billing in an Early English style.



The stone pulpit on the left of the apse is adorned with Salviati mosaic panels.


This engraving of the interior of the church appeared in an 1871 publication and it shows bare arcades on the pulpit, which means that the mosaics were installed sometime after 1871.

Sources:
Tile Gazetteer
British Listed Buildings
Oxfordshire Churches' flickr Photostream
Roger Sweet on Panoramio
Field, Walter. Stones of the Temple. London: Rivingtons, 1871. 93.

Friday, May 24, 2013

St. Stephen's Church, Hampstead

S.S. Teulon's 1871 church became redundant in 1977 and the interior was severely vandalized over the next twenty years.
 

In 1998, the church was joined with the school next door and since then, the building has been restored and is now used to hold events such as weddings or birthday celebrations.


Salviati mosaic roundels of various Passion symbols can still be found in the former chancel, while most in the nave seem to have been lost. 



A few roundels featuring angels that surround a rose window above the entrance to the side chapel are intact.


Sources:
Cherry, Bridget. The Buildings of England: London 4: North. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. 206.
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 125.
Telegraph UK
Genshin's Intuition's flickr Photostream
Pashmin@'s flickr Photostream
IanVisits' flickr Photostream

Friday, May 17, 2013

Upper Berkeley Street Synagogue

Known today as the West London Synagogue, this building was designed by the firm of Davis and Emanuel and built 1871.


1936 view




Golden Salviati mosaics adorn the Commandment tablets on either side of the apse arch.


Sources:
Archiseek
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 125.
English Heritage
Helen and Matthew Banks
JCR-UK

Monday, April 8, 2013

St. David's Cathedral

This is a late-Norman cathedral in Wales that has undergone numerous renovations over the centuries including one by G.G. Scott 1862-70.


A carved screen separates the nave from the choir, beyond which is the presbytery containing the high altar.


Designed by John Hardmann Powell, three mosaic panels from 1871 decorate the high altar.


The crucified Jesus, John, Mary Magdalene and Mary in the central panel.


Ecclesia, representing the Christian Church, is on the left.


Synagoga, symbolizing the Jewish synagogue, is on the right.


Sources:
Imaging the Bible in Wales Database
Sacred Destinations
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 125.
Wikipedia

Friday, February 15, 2013

Josiah Wedgewood Memorial Institute

Architects George Benjamin Nichols, Robert Edgar and John Lockwood Kipling (father of author Rudyard) designed this building in a Venetian Gothic style. It was built 1863-73.


The upper level has arcades with statues representing the months of the year, topped with mosaic roundels of the 12 zodiac signs by Salviati and Burke, which were installed by 1871.








Sources:
Noszlopy, George Thomas and Fiona Vaterhouse. Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005. 131.
George Jones' flickr Photostream
The Potteries

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Exeter College Chapel

Located in the heart of Oxford, the Chapel of Exeter College was built 1856-59 by G.G. Scott and modeled after Paris' Sainte Chapelle. The "greater part of the mosaics" on the east end were the gift of Dr. George Ridding, Bishop of Southwell.



The arcaded Salviati mosaics in the apse feature familiar themes for such locations: the four Evangelists, Christ and angels, the Lamb of God and the Pelican in her Piety. An 1871 catalog called "Views of Oxford" already refers to a "mosaic altarpiece" and based upon a photograph located in the Cornell University archives, by 1885 they had all been installed.




Sources:
Wikipedia
Exeter College
Cornell University Archives
Pierrot Heritier Photos
richardr's flickr Photostream
Bach at Astoft
Taunt, Henry W. " 'A' List of of views of Oxford and the neighborhoods." Oxford Architectural Society, Third Ed. 1871. 9.
Stride, William Keatley. "Exeter College." London: F.E. Robinson and Company, 1900. 199.
Carr, William. "Oxford University College Histories." Psychology Press, 1902. 199.