Showing posts with label Arcades. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arcades. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Parish Church of St. Saviour and St. Peter, Eastbourne

This church was designed by G.E. Street and built 1865-68.


Antique print from 1867 from the Illustrated London News

Salviati made the chancel mosaics. The six arcades behind the carved reredos depict the twelve Apostles.


Sources:
Sussex Parish Churches
The Voice of Hassocks on Wikimedia Commons
Wikipedia
St. Saviour Eastbourne
Ebay

Monday, October 7, 2013

Monday, August 26, 2013

St. John the Baptist Church, Barnack

Originally a Saxon church, parts of the building date to the early 11th century. A major restoration was carried out in 1853-55.



The chancel was enriched during the forty-year tenure (1851-91) of the church's Rector Dean Argles with three stained glass windows, the decoration of the chancel roof, as well as the Venetian mosaic reredos.


The Salviati mosaics under the east window depict four angels on gold backgrounds after Fra Angelico.



Sources:
The Journal of the British Archaeological Association. Volume 5, London: 1899. 21.Parish History: Marsham Argles
Wikipedia
English Heritage
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
Parish News Online
Mary Kirby's Flickr Photostream
John Salmon on Geograph
Rex Harris' Flickr Photostream

Monday, July 1, 2013

St Mary's Church, Sunbury-on-Thames

The church was built in the 18th century by Stephen Wright, but it was substantially altered by S.S. Teulon in 1856. It underwent further enrichment in the 1890s under George Heywood Sumner.


Salviati's enamel mosaics inlaid between the stone and marble decorate the arcades, screens and reredos.



Sources:
St Mary's Church, Sunbury-on-Thames
George P. Landlow on Victorian Web
Maxwell Hamilton on Panoramio

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

St. Gabriel's Church Pimlico

Designed by Thomas Cundy II, this church in a decorated Gothic style was built 1852-53.


The south-east chapel was added in 1896-97, at which time the Salviati mosaics of 1869 were moved here from the east chancel wall.



The four arched marble arcade contains the figures of the four Evangelists in their symbolic animal forms.


Sources:
St. Gabriel's More History
Stiffleaf's flickr Photostream

Friday, February 1, 2013

St. Editha's Church Tamworth

The original 9th century Norman church was restored extensively by G.G. Scott in the 1850s and by William Butterfield around 1871.



The eastern chancel contains five marble arcades framing Salviati mosaics from 1887.



Sources:
British Listed Buildings
Elliott Brown's flickr Photostream
Visit Tamworth
St. Editha's Church
Richardr's flickr Photostream

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.

Friday, January 4, 2013

Parish Church of St. Peter Leeds

On February 21, 1865 - six years after starting his first mosaic workshop in Murano - Dr. Salviati gave a heartfelt lecture in front of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society about both the history of the craft of mosaic making, as well as about the benefits of the revolutionary new process that Lorenzo Radi developed for the Salviati-made pieces. Within just a few years, the local parish church would also be fitted with these mosaics.

Also known as Leeds Minster, this English Gothic style church was rebuilt in 1839-41 by architect R.D. Chantrell.


The east-end sanctuary (seen to the left of the central tower), which contains an arcade of Salviati mosaics possibly from 1876 depicting the twelve apostles, was renovated between 1870 and 1880 by G.E. Street. This seems to be a similar type of chancel expansion that was done in 1870 in the Gonville and Caius Chapel at Cambridge.

The altar, above which hangs a painting of The Last Supper, circa 1838.


The eastern expansion, after Street's 1870s renovations.


From the Left: Peter, Andrew, James, John and Phillip 

 
James and Paul behind the High Altar (Left)


Barnabas and Thomas behind the High Altar (Right) 


From the Right: Bartholomew, Matthew, Simon, Matthew (Thaddeus?) and Judas


While Salviati's mosaics were always made of glass enamel tesserae, the central reredos of Christ in Glory surrounded by angels was made of colored marble and alabaster. It was designed by G.E. Street and executed by Thomas Earp and Rust in 1888 following cartoons by Clayton and Bell.


Sources:
Salviati, Antonio. " On Mosaics (Generally) and the Superior Advantages, Adaptability and General Use in the Past and Present Age, in Architectural and Other Decorations, or Enamel Mosaics: Being a Paper Read Before the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society", on February 21st, 1865. London: Wertheimer and Co., 1865.
Wikipedia
British Listed Buildings
grahamway's flickr Photostream
Budby's flickr Photostream
GENUKI Leeds Parish Church History 
Leeds Parish Church 
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 125.
Wrathmell, Susan. Pevsner Architectural Guides: Leeds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 45.