Showing posts with label Slater. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slater. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

St. Peter's Church, Chetnole

This church dates back to the Thirteenth Century. Slater and Carpenter refurbished the building between 1860 and 1865, including rebuilding the chancel.

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Salviati inlaid the alabaster reredos with mosaic during this time.


Sources:
Three Valleys Team
British Listed Buildings
Dorset OPC Project

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Thornford

This 14th century church was restored in 1866 by the firm of Slater and Carpenter.


The five panels of the stone reredos are filled with Salviati mosaics. The central panel consists of a Greek cross in a circle, while the two panels on either side include depictions of Alpha, IHS Christogram, and Omega.


Sources:
British Listed Buildings
UK Genealogy Archives 
1903 Kelly's Directory of Dorset
Basher Eyre on Geograph
Tripadvisor
Newman, John, and Nikolaus Pevsner. Dorset. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972. 34.

Friday, June 21, 2013

St. John the Evangelist Scottish Episcopal Church, Dumfries

Architects William Slater and Richard Herbert Carpenter of London designed this church that was built 1867-68.



Salviati made the mosaic panels in the reredos and spandrels.



Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 125.
Dumfries Churches
McDowall, William. History of the burgh of Dumfries. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1867. 820.
Rose and Trev Clough on Geograph

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Compton Pauncefoot

This 15th century church was renovated by William Slater in 1864.


Salviati mosaics adorn the reredos.


Sources:
Mike Searle on Geograph 
Trish Steele on Wikimedia Commons
Wikipedia
Salviati, Antonio. On mosaics. A Paper read before the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society on February 21st, 1865. 51.
Somerset Bloke's flickr' Photostream