OLD CHURCHES IN BRITAIN

ALL SAINTS MARGARET STREET

All Saints Margaret Street is a Victorian church in Fitzrovia, near Oxford Street, London. It is regarded as one of the foremost examples of High Victorian Gothic architecture in Britain.

It was designed in 1850 by William Butterfield, an architect strongly associated with Gothic revival church building and the Oxford Movement. Completed in 1859, the red brick church was built around a small courtyard with an adjoining vicarage and a choir school.

 

CHURCH OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. EDMUND

The Church of St. Thomas Becket in Salisbury dates from the mid-15th century and is especially notable for its medieval mural of the Last Judgment.
The Last Judgment mural was completed in 1475. The work was painted over in 1593 (well after the Reformation) and remained hidden until it was discovered and restored in 1881.
Pre-restoration drawings confirm that this composition is original to 1475 and the details are familiar from other 15th-century murals. The color has faded quite a bit, but the completeness of the work is remarkable, as is the detailed backdrop featuring buildings, trees and landscape.

Below: Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)

“St Edmund’s Church, Salisbury”, circa 1800-2