Cathedral Church of St. Edmundsbury

In 1914, the former St. James' of Bury St. Edmunds became the cathedral church of the newly created Diocese of Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The original church was built in the Norman style and the nave dates to the early 16th century, but much of the current building was rebuilt and expanded since the 1960s. 

St. James' in 1779. Note separate Norman tower on the right.

St. James' circa 1870 after Scott's renovation.

St. James' in 2014 with its new, connected tower.

The redesigned chancel that G.G. Scott added in 1865-69 contained Salviati mosaics within alabaster reredos made by Farmer and Brindley and financed by bankers Oakes and Bevan. The raised quatrefoil center contained an alabaster cross flanked by the symbols for Alpha, Omega and XP on a golden mosaic base. The spandrils contained symbols of the Evangelists, as well as a pelican and the Holy lamb.

The chancel circa 1922 with the Salviati mosaics.

While the Baptismal font from 1870 (also by Scott) and numerous Victorian stained glass windows survived 20th century renovations, the reredos were removed and their fate is unclear.

Sources:

The National Archives. Cathedral Church of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds. Accessed January 30, 2022.
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 124.
Tymms, Samuel. "A Handbook of Bury St. Edmunds in the County of Suffolk." 6th ed. London, 1891. p. 57.
Churches and Family Tree. Stepneyrobarts blog post: Bury St. Edmunds. Accessed January 30, 2022.
St. Edmundsbury Cathedral. Accessed January 30, 2022.
Wikipedia, Photo by David Iliff: St. Edmundsbury Cathedral.
St. Edmundsbury Chronicle. Accessed January 30, 2022.
An antique line engraving published by F. Lankester. Circa 1870. Later coloured by hand.
Francis Frith: Bury St. Edmonds.

St. Paul's Cathedral, Dundee

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.

St. Augustine's Church, Wrangthorn

Architect James Barlow Fraser designed the church whose foundation stone was laid in 1869 using the Gothic revival style. It was completed in 1871.

Postcard from 1871

John Fraser commenced the alabaster reredos as a memorial to his wife, but upon his death, it was finished by his children. The center panel consists of a Venetian mosaic of The Last Supper by Salviati, Burke and Co. while figures feeding the poor and healing the sick flank each respective side. The reredos was completed in 1882.

Interior in 1927.

Sources:
"New Buildings and Restorations."  The Architect. December 18, 1869. 304.
"Miscellanea." Reredos, St. Augustine's Church, Wrangthorne, Leeds. The Builder. June 10, 1882. 723.
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Church of St. Augustine at Wrangthorn, Leeds. British Listed Buildings.
"Wrangthorn: St. Augustine of Hippo." A Church Near You.

Hove Town Hall

Built 1880-82 after plans by Alfred Waterhouse, the new Gothic style town hall in Hove was opened in mid-December 1882. It was a two story, red brick building with additional dormers under the steeply pitched roof.

The exterior focal point of the building was the 120 ft tall by 19 ft wide clock tower located in the center of the main front facing Church Road. Salviati and Burke made the mosaics for the tower's four clock faces, which measured seven feet in diameter each.

A fire destroyed much of the building in 1966, and it was subsequently replaced with a more modern town hall.

Sources:
"Hove Town Hall." Hove, Portslade and Brighton in the Past.
Drury, Jennifer. "Hove Town Hall." My Brighton and Hove.
Bell, John. "Morning after the 1966 fire." My Brighton and Hove.
"Tenders and Contracts." The Furniture Gazette. Jan 6, 1883. 13.
"Building Intelligence." The Building News and Engineering Journal. Dec 22, 1882. 794.
Trimingham, Adam. "An Historic Hall." The Argus. July 16, 2012.

Fabrica de Calzado Excelsior, Mexico

The Excelsior Shoe Factory was located on the present corner of Benjamin Franklin and Carlos B. Zetina Streets (named after the man who founded Excelsior in 1902 who later became a senator, as well as presidential candidate) in the Tacubaya district of Mexico City.

Salviati made a mosaic in the crescent over the entryway representing Labor.

Today, the Universidad La Salle stands in the location.

Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 139.
Taringa! 
El Modo Museo 
Bulletin of the Pan American Union. vol LVI, 1923. 344.

Fővárosi Serfőzde Rt.

The Fővárosi Serfőzde Rt. (Capitol City Brewery) was established in Budapest's District X in 1913 and began production the following year. It was bought in 1943 by Dreher brewery and later by the Globus Canning Factory (Globus Konzervgyár Rt.). Production stopped in 2009.

Postcard depicting the brewery circa 1920

Salviati, Jesurum, and Co. reportedly made the two mosaics, which decorate separate parts of the enormous, red brick factory complex. The medallions look identical and depict King Mathias Corvinus (Mátyás király) on a golden background shown in a side portrait. The brewery's initials of "F" and "S" flank the face on each side, with the words "VED-JEGY" (trademark or brand) and "MATYAS KIRALY" around it on a ring of blue.

The building framing a large chimney and facing Maglodi Street contains the (currently) more degraded mosaic. The laurel wreath around the mosaic center - appearing to be copper, but likely made of maiolica with an eosin glaze - is attributed to the Zsolnay Porcelain Manufacture of Pécs and measures four meters in diameter.

The second medallion is located on the spandrel of a covered walkway that connects two buildings. This also faces Maglodi Street, but is a much smaller mosaic (detail above).

Sources:
Pilsitz, Martin. On the Industrial Urban Development of Pest in the 19th Century. periodica polytechnica. 43/1 (2012). 37-44.

Balatoni, Mihaly, et al. A Magyar élelmiszeripar története. Budapest: Mezőgazdasági Kiadó, 1986. 533.

Prusi Dosszie. Matyas Kiraly a Sorgyarban.

muemlekem.hu 

Wikipedia Commons 

Andras on Kozterkep 

Zubrecki, David. Irodanak Hirdetik az Egyik Legszebb Pesti Ipari Muemleket. Index. June 10, 2015. 

Galeria Savaria

tajertektar.hu

In Detail: Conservation Work on the Royal Garrison Church Woolwich

The restoration of the circa 1890 Salviati mosaics in the Royal Garrison Church is entering its final phase, as conservators with Skillington Ltd. spend the next few weeks on site to finish reinstalling the remaining pieces.

Funded by the Heritage of London Trust and working under the supervision of the English Heritage, the conservation work was necessary due to the poor state of the mosaics resulting from decades of exposure to environmental conditions after the bombing of the church in 1944.

Most of the conservation was carried out in situ, including stabilization of mortars and loose tesserae, disinfection and cleaning. In the decorative border around St George, there was also the replacement of old repairs with new tesserae in the same tone.

Another company had previously removed some of the mosaics, and these were restored at Skillington Ltd.'s workshop. Those conserved pieces are now being installed, which would complete the mosaic restoration project.

Sources: 
The photographs and information about the conservation work have been kindly provided by Kalypso Kampani of Decorative Arts Conservation and Restoration. Ms. Kampani wrote the original proposal for the restoration grant and is the head conservator on the project.