Choir, St. Paul's Cathedral, London

Choir

St. Paul's Cathedral

London

Image and text scanned by Nathalie Chevalier.

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The Walls of the Choir have been decorated in glass ismalto mosaic from designs by Sir W. B. Richmond. On the central panel on the roof of the apse is Christ enthroned, to the right and the left are recording Angels. The larger panels represent the Sea giving up its dead. In the Choir proper the chief features of the mosaic decorations are the saucer domes above each of the three bays. That in the easternmost bay represents the creation of the Birds, while the subjects of the other two, are the creation of the Beasts. The mosaics are executed in the style of the early mosaicists and not after the smooth modern method. The glass tesseræ were furnished by Messrs. Powell of Whitefriars, and the whole work executed by British Workmen. [text accompanying photograph]

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The volume containing these images by an unidentified photographer bears the imprint "With H. and C. F. Feist's compliments" but no name, date, or place of publication, though the Feists were dealers in port wine, and Plate 30 demonstrates that the photograph must have been taken after 1902, and John R. Mendel offers evidence that it dates before mid-1906 [GPL].

Last modified 7 November 2003