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.
