Showing posts with label Cross. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cross. 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

Monday, October 28, 2013

Tyndale Monument

This 111 foot (34 m) tall tower was built in 1866 by architect S.S. Teulon in honor of William Tyndale, translator of the New Testament.


Salviati decorated the cross on top of the monument with gold enamel Venetian mosaics.


Sources:
Salviati, Antonio. On Mosaics (generally). 1865. 50.
Wikipedia
Illustrated London News. November 17, 1866.
W. Lloyd MacKenzie, via Flickr @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/saffron_blaze/

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.

Monday, September 16, 2013

All Saints' Church, Hessle

This originally 12th century church was almost completely rebuilt by architect R.G. Smith of Hull in 1870, getting a longer nave and a new chancel.


The carved reredos is divided into seven sections, with the flanking buttresses filled in with green marble. The three panels in the center are decorated with Salviati mosaics of the cross surrounded by Pelican with her Young and the Lamb of God.




Sources:
The Builder. March 26, 1870. 251.
All Saints Hessle
David Wright on WikimediaCommons
A Church Near You
English Heritage

Friday, September 13, 2013

St. Mary's Church, Ealing

The original Medieval parish church was rebuilt in 1735-40 by J. Horne and then subsequently enlarged by S.S. Teulon in 1866-74.


The marble and Caen stone reredos was adorned with Salviati mosaics.


Archive photo from 1892 showing the reredos of a white marble cross on a gold mosaic background.


The chancel in 1909


The most recent restoration took place in 2002-03 and included the redecoration of the whole interior, which brought it more in line with the original Victorian design.


Although the mosaics reredos appear to be different than in the archival illustrations, it's unclear what changes were made and why.

Sources:
Cherry, Bridget and Nikolaus Pevsner. Buildings of England: London 3: North West New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. 166.
St. Mary's Ealing
Ealing Civic Society
Mark Hillary's flickr Photostream
John Salmon on Geolocation
perivalevwood
Jackson, Edith. Annals of Ealing: From the Twelfth Century to the Present Time. London: Phillimore & Company, 1898. 240.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Holy Trinity Church, Hawley

This church was built as a direct result of the Oxford Movement in 1856-57 by architect J.B. Clacy, replacing the original church from the 1830s. It was soon extended in 1868.


The Salviati mosaics in the Sanctuary were a gift of Miss Tipping and were installed around 1875.


The reredos behind the altar depicts the symbols for alpha and omega, with a central, carved stone cross made from English alabaster. The Pelican and the Lamb of God can also be found in the side panels. All of them are on Salviati's traditional gold background.


Mosaic panels set within trefoil arcades on either side of the High Altar depict, on the left, the Old Testament prophets Melchisedek, Moses and David; on the right, the Apostles St John, St Paul and St Peter.


Sources:
Holy Trinity History
British Listed Buildings
Del Barfoot's flickr Photostream
Camberley Decorative & Fine Arts Society
Ashley Buttle's flickr Photostream