Showing posts with label 1864. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1864. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

All Saints' Church, Windsor

A.W. Blomfield designed this church and it was built 1863-64. The daughter of Queen Victoria, H.R.H. the Crown Princess of Prussia laid the first stone.


Salviati made the large, floriated mosaic cross above the chancel arch after designs by Blomfield.


Sources:
Salviati, Antonio. On Mosaics (generally). Leeds, 1865. 45.
The Royal Windsor Forum. June 3, 2011
"All Saints' Church, Windsor." The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal. vol. 27. Dec. 1, 1864. 364.
Basher Eyre on Geograph

Thursday, August 22, 2013

St. Paul's Church, Langleybury

Architect Henry Woodyer, a student of William Butterfield, designed this church that was built in 1864.


Salviati mosaics depict Sts. Peter and Paul on the east wall.



Sources:
St. Paul's Church Lanleybury
Cussans, John Edwin. History of Hertfordshire: Containing an Account of the Descents of the Various Manors. London: Chatto and Windus, 1879. 108.
Hunton Bridge: St. Paul's
IanAWood's flickr Photostream
Glen Smith Wedding Photographer

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

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Albert Memorial Chapel, Windsor Castle

Among Antonio Salviati's first English commissions was an 1862 request from Queen Victoria for the decoration of the Wolsey Chapel in the east passage of St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, which was turned into the Albert Memorial Chapel soon after the December 1861 death of her beloved husband.



In addition to the tomb of Victoria's grandson Albert, Duke of Clarence (d. 1892), the chapel also contains the remains of her youngest son, Prince Leopold (d. 1884).

View of the eastern-end windows.


The 28 panels of the west wall's blank window are decorated with mosaics of full-length figures of historic individuals who have some type of connection to Windsor Castle including British Kings, Queens and Prelates. This section of mosaic was ordered separately in 1864.


The extensive ceiling mosaics that cover about 2,100 square feet, as well as the soffits of the side windows feature 92 angels, heraldry and floral motifs. The general designs were by G.G. Scott and the cartoons were created by J.R. Clayton. The ceiling mosaics were completed first, and the pre-fabrication (in Venice), transportation to London and installation took a total of ten months.

Sources:
London Connection
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 18.
College of St. George Chapel Archives
Le Monde1's flickr Photostream
Aaron K Hall's flickr Photostream
Striderv's flickr Photostream
Mary Scots' flickr Photostream
Papers Read at the Royal Institute of British Architects. Session 1868-69. London: Rooms of the Institute. 1869. 44.