Oxford. Exeter College Chapel (Looking East)
- Title:
- Oxford. Exeter College Chapel (Looking East)
- Collection:
- Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection
- Creator:
- Scott, George Gilbert, I (English architect, 1811-1878)
- Creation Date:
- ca. 1865-ca. 1885 (photograph)
1856 (building)
- Location:
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- ID Number:
- 10066018
- Accession Number:
- 15/5/3090.00838
- Collection Number:
- 15-5-3090
- File Name:
- 10066018.jpg
- Style/Period:
- Victorian
- Materials/Techniques:
- albumen prints
- Subject:
- universities (buildings)
Oxford University, Oxford, England
University campuses
Religious interiors
Chapels
stained glass (material)
ribbed vaults
choirs (church spaces)
pews
corbels
Altars
eagles (birds)
Birds
animals by form
mosaics (visual works)
wrought iron (iron alloy)
photographs - Measurement:
- 20.6375 x 13.6525 (centimeters)
- Description:
- Exeter College's "17th-century chapel was demolished in 1856 to make way for one designed by George Gilbert Scott, which he loosely modelled on the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. Far too big for its surroundings, the new chapel is a typical and enjoyable piece of high Victorian self-confi dence. The memorable interior is lavishly decorated with mosaic, brass and wrought iron. Its fittings include stalls by Bodley, a stone screen and organ gallery, and a large William Morris tapestry, The Adoration of the Kings, designed by Burne-Jones. Morris and Burne-Jones became undergraduates at Exeter in 1853, both intending to enter the Church
but inspired by Ruskin, Rossetti and the medieval splendours of Oxford they rejected conventional careers and dedicated themselves to art." Source: Oxford Tour site, http://193.123.31.186/exeter.html - Source:
- Data from: A.D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/adw/albumen.htm - Cite As:
- Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photograph Collection, #15-5-3090. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Andrew Dickson White architectural photograph collection
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in this collection are in the public domain and are believed to have no known U.S. copyright or other restrictions. The Library does not charge for permission to use these materials and does not grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute them. However, as a good scholarly practice we recommend that all patrons cite the Library as the source of the reproduction. For a more detailed explanation please read the Library Guidelines for Using Public Domain Text, Images, Audio, and Video Reproduced from Cornell University Library Collections at http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright.