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

Monday, July 8, 2013

Roman Voda Lyceum

The Roman Voda National College is a primary and high school in the city of Roman. It was established in 1872 and it moved into its current location in 1899.


Salviati decorated the facade, along with those of two other high schools in the Romanian cities of Pitesti and Focsani with mosaic spandrels featuring a floral motif and heraldry in the gable above the entrance.



Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Ventian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 138.
Wikipedia RO
Zang
Yahoo Groups
CDT Photo

Friday, July 5, 2013

Parish Church of St. Mary, West Rainton

E.R. Robson designed the church that was built in 1864.  In 1877, Sir George Eliot funded the addition of a tower and added a stone from the great pyramid of Giza into the base of the spire in thanksgiving for his safe return from Egypt.



The mosaic reredos of Christ and two angels is by Salviati.


Sources:
Parishes of East and West Rainton on Facebook
Pevsner, Nikolaus and Elizabeth Williamson. Buildings of England: County Durham. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. 500.
North-East History Tour
Digital Atlas of England

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Krause Family Tomb

Friedrich Wilhelm von Krause was a Berlin wine merchant, banker, and industrialist who died in 1877. His family tomb (for Wilhelm and his wife Flora) was designed by Friedrich Hitzig, who previously designed both Krause's palace on Leipziger Platz and the Berlin Stock Exchange.





The mosaics, designed by Karl Gottfried Pfannschmidt and Anton von Werner, were executed by Salviati and cover 500 square feet. Von Werner previously designed the monumental mosaics on the rotunda of the Berlin Victory Column.






Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 127.
Bedoire,  Fredric. The Jewish Contribution to Modern Architecture: 1830-1930. Jersey City, NJ: KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 2004. 219.
Pagewizz
mitue's flickr Photostream
Cemetery II of Trinity Church
Friedhof Ansichten
Friedhofsfinder
Stadtentwicklung Berlin
Arkitekur Museum
Berlin Intensiv

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.

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Catholic Parish of St. Brigid's, Marrickville

St. Brigid's Retreat was built in 1886 and it was later taken over by Irish Passionists. The current Catholic church was built 1918-21 and it is the second largest church in Sydney.





Salviati & Co. made the mosaic altar reredos for the original church based upon a commission from the Very Reverend Father Bertrand Mangan (1873-1933), who left Ireland for Australia in 1915.


The 13th Station of the Cross is one of the fourteen mosaic scenes also by Salviati depicting Christ's Passion.

Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 139.
"Rev. Father Bertrand Mangan, C.P." The Sydney Morning Herald. January 3, 1933.

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