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The Salviati Architectural Mosaic Database: Exeter College Chapel Exeter College, Inspector Lewis, Inspector Morse, Oxford United Kingdom, Oxford City, Cities Of The World, Oxford England, Film Locations, Neoclassical Architecture

Located in the heart of Oxford, the Chapel of Exeter College was built 1856-59 by G.G. Scott and modeled after Paris' Sainte Chapelle. The "greater part of the mosaics" on the east end were the gift of Dr. George Ridding, Bishop of Southwell. The arcaded Salviati mosaics in the apse feature familiar themes for such locations: the four Evangelists, Christ and angels, the Lamb of God and the Pelican in her Piety. An 1871 catalog called "Views of Oxford" already refers to a "mosaic altarpiece"…

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