Rhydd Court Chapel

Charles Francis Hansom designed the chapel for the Rhydd Court estate in 1864. Norman Shaw completed work on it between 1865-66 due to Hansom's illness. It was built on the wishes of Sir Edmund A. H. Lechmere in memory of his first son who had died.

Print circa 1870 with the Chapel on the far left

The Lechmeres moved back to their ancestral home of Severns End and the estate was used as a Red Cross Hospital beginning in 1915. After the war, it was sold and housed a boys' school until 1991. It was sold again in 2004 and operates as a home for children and adults with special needs.

While much of the chapel's interior was said to have been gutted by 2007, Shaw's mosaic reredos with the Salviati mosaics still remained. The current status of the reredos, however, is unknown.

Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008.
Museo del vetro di Murano. Vetri artistici del primo Ottocento. Regione Del Veneto, 2006. 35.
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Chichester Cathedral, Lady Chapel

Also known as the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, this seat of the Anglican Bishop of Chichester was founded in 1075. Sir G.G. Scott had to rebuild the spire after it collapsed in 1861.

The Lady Chapel as it stands today was added to the Norman apsidal east end in the 13th century. It is seen on the left of the above picture. The chapel was restored in 1871.

Salviati made the mosaic for the alabaster reredos, which was designed by Richard Carpenter and Benjamin Ingelow and is dated 1878. The cartoons for Christ Appearing to the Disciples after the Resurrection were designed by Clayton and Bell.

Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 124.
Corlette, Hubert C. Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester. 1901.
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Rossie Priory, Inchture

Designed by William Atkinson, this country estate was built in 1817 for Charles, the 8th Lord Kinnaird.

1825 Etching of the Estate

Pre-1949 Aerial Photograph

Much of the 15 bedroom house was destroyed and then reconstructed after 1948. The west wing and 1866 chapel by T.S. Robertson were kept, but restored at the same time. 

1940s Reconstruction Plans - The Chapel is seen on the far left.

The altar with the geometric patterned Salviati mosaics from the chapel can now be found in All Souls' Church, Invergowrie. That church was opened in 1891 and consecrated in 1896. It's Lady Chapel received the altar with the reredos because the Lady Kinnaird was a patron of All Souls' Church and her son, the 11th Baron who ascended in 1887 was not an Episcopalian.

Today, the estate is open to guests as a hotel.

 

Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 124.
Museo del vetro di Murano. Vetri artistici del primo Ottocento. Regione Del Veneto, 2006. 35.
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Charterhouse School Chapel, Godalming

The original school was founded in 1611 in London by Thomas Sutton, but a Royal Commission decided to transfer it to the countryside in 1864. The first few buildings in Godalming including the chapel were designed by Philip Charles Hardwick after the boarding school moved there in 1872. Construction was carried out by Lucas Brothers.

The chapel and memorial cloister around 1900 (below). The building was not as Hardwick had originally designed it since the school's governing body decided to make it smaller, which ended up being the reason it was replaced some sixty-four years later.

The Caen marble reredos was installed in 1874 in the east end of the chapel. Salviati enamel mosaics alternated in panels with geometric shaped marble mosaics. The upper section contained a large central mosaic of the Last Supper - a gift of Carthusian G.T. Clarke, Esq. - that was the exact length of the altar. Two Evangelists on gold backgrounds flanked each side. The lower portion contained each of the Evangelists' corresponding emblems, while the central panel depicted the Sacraments - a grape vine, a dove over water, and a trefoil - and a pink cross with a white border.

In 1937, the reredos was removed and the entire east wall was blocked up, leaving just the stained glass windows visible only from the outside. The chapel was subsequently converted into the music school in 1940. The mosaic of the Last Supper came into the possession of an old Carthusian in 1942, who six years later had it restored and placed in the Memorial Chapel of Clayton Parish (St. John's) Church some 230 miles away. The reredos was rededicated in 1949. It is unknown what happened to the other parts of the original mosaic composition.

 
The new chapel at Charterhouse still in use was designed by G.G. Scott and built in 1927.

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Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 125.
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St. Dunstan's Chapel, St. Paul's Cathedral

Salviati made eight mosaics decorating the spandrels under St. Paul's Cathedral's central dome, which can still be seen in Sir Christopher Wren's church today.

View of the Cathedral's west entrance

Consecrated in 1699 and known until 1905 as the Morning Chapel, St. Dunstan's Chapel is found to the left when entering the Cathedral's west entrance.

In the 1870s, C.F. Penrose made significant alterations to the interior of the church, including removing stalls from the east side of the chapel in order to create its sanctuary.

The original chapel layout. The pews on the right (east) were removed by Penrose to create a sanctuary in the apse. The mosaic above the new altar is an imitation of a fresco by Raphael.

This undated 360' panoramic photograph shows the rear of the chapel decorated by a mosaic featuring the Three Marys at the Sepulchre (sic) [or alternately Risen Savior] by Salviati, which was added in 1874. It was made in memory of William Hale, a former Archdeacon who died in 1870.

Photography is prohibited inside St. Paul's and therefore the current status of the Salviati mosaic is unknown. A tiny bit of the sanctuary mosaic is visible to the left at the bottom, behind the carved wooden screen from a photograph taken in 2013.

Sources:
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St. John's Hospital Chapel of St. Michael Within, Bath

The hospital was founded around 1180 and the current building dates to 1716.

During the time of Edward VI, the hospital annexed the tiny chapel of St. Michael located at the south-east corner of the Chapel Court complex. Rebuilt in 1723 by William Killigrew, the local architectural firm of Browne and Gill restored it in 1879.

Salviati made a mosaic of the Adoration of the Lamb located under the east windows.

 

HRH The Duchess of Cornwall is a Patron of the hospital, which is now a charity dedicated to taking care of the local poor elderly.

Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 137.
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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.
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Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks

The chapel was built in 1838 and it has served the seven Regiments of the Household Division. It is the only remaining military chapel in London.

G.E. Street remodeled the chapel in 1877-78.

1882 interior drawing

1899 photograph

The chapel was heavily damaged by bombing during World War II, first during the blitz in 1940 and 1941, and then more seriously in 1944 when 121 soldiers and civilians were killed.

It was rebuilt in the early 1960s and the chancel mosaic can still be seen in the original chancel, which had remained intact.

The chancel is decorated with three scenes: the Bearing of the Cross, the Crucifixion and the Descent from the Cross. John Clayton designed the cartoons for the mosaics, which were executed by Salviati and Burke.

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Livadia Palace Chapel

The Livadia Palace was the summer retreat of the last Russian tsar Nicholas II and his family. It was also the location of the Yalta Conference in 1945, at which world leaders - including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin - discussed post-World War II reorganization.

The neo-Byzantine style Church of the Erection of the Cross was built adjacent to the original palace by Russian court architect Ippolit Antonovich Monighetti 1864-66. It is the only building left from Monighetti's initial construction.

A painted icon of the exaltation of the cross was ruined by rain from a leaky roof, but Alexander Popov made a copy that Salviati used to create the mosaic replica, which is still located in the chapel.

Undated archival photo of the chapel's interior.

Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Guide, 2008. 132.
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Tait Chapel, Fulham Palace

William Butterfield designed the current chapel for Bishop Tait in 1866-67.

The Salviati mosaic reredos depicting the "Nativity" or "Adoration of the Magi" - also designed by Butterfield with cartoons by Alexander Gibbs - was moved to the west wall after reorganization of the chapel following bomb damage in World War II.

The chancel wall with the Salviati reredos before 1896.

A 1901 edition of "The Graphic" shows some pictures of Fulham Palace, including the Chapel in the top center.

The current reredos.

Sources:
Cherry, Bridget and Nikolaus Pevsner. "London 3: North West." New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. 238.
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