1825 Etching of the Estate
Pre-1949 Aerial Photograph
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.
Wikipedia
Historic Houses Association
Departures International
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Historic Scotland
Sacred Scotland
British Listed Buildings
Very close to Rossie Priory is the city of Dundee where there is a large Salviati mosaic reredos of Christ in glory dating from 1865 in St Paul's Episcopal Cathedral designed by George Gilbert Scott. I can provide details if you wish to add it. From the guide to St Paul's from 1887, the reredos is described as '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."
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