Roman Catholic Church of the Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory, Warwick Street, Soho, London: the sanctuary
Architect/Designer | Bentley, John Francis (1839-1902) |
Artist/Photographer | Dell & Wainwright |
Country | UK: England |
City | London |
Subject Date | 1880 |
Image Date | 1940 |
View | Interior |
Style | Victorian |
Medium | Photoprint |
Library Reference | AP508/170 (DWN8930) |
Orientation | Portrait |
Colour Info | Black and white |
Credit | Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections |
Subject | Interior decoration ; Mosaics ; Churches |
NOTES; Originally a Catholic chapel belonging to the Portuguese Embassy in nearby Golden Square, this church was taken over by the Bavarian Embassy in 1747 when the Portuguese Embassy moved and has since been more commonly known as the Bavarian Chapel. The present chapel opened in 1790 and it became the parish church of Our Lady of the Assumption in 1854. The sanctuary was reconstructed to designs by John Francis Bentley and completed in 1880. The mosaic in the semi-dome of the apse represents the Coronation of the Virgin and was executed by George Bridge in 1910.
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