Photographs of Mosaics |
![One of the earliest mosaics](mosaics/s_first.jpg) |
![The medusa mosaic](mosaics/s_medusa.jpg) |
One of the earliest mosaics in Britain |
A later mosaic, with the central image being Medusa |
![the flower mosaic](mosaics/s_flower_mosaic.jpg) |
The remains of the flower mosaic |
![Roman bodging!](mosaics/s_bodging.jpg) |
![Mosaics are flexible](mosaics/s_flexible.jpg) |
![layers of mosaics](mosaics/s_layers.jpg) |
After this room became a workshop there was no need to replace missing tesserae, just level the floor |
When the subsidence is slow, mosaics proove to be very flexible |
Sometimes mosaics were layed one on top of another, just as is often done with lino |
![a mosaic from Chilgrove](mosaics/s_chilgrove.jpg) |
A mosaic from a villa in Chilgrove Vallley, about 5 miles from Fishbourne |
![An overview of the mosaic with confusing perspective](mosaics/s_perspective_mosaic_overview.jpg) |
![Detail of the mosaic with confusing perspective](mosaics/s_perspective_mosaic_detail.jpg) |
A wide and detailed view of a mosaic with confusing perspective, reminiscent of the pictures by M.C. Escher but nearly 2000 years older! |
The "Cupid on a Dolphin" Mosaic |
![An overview of the Mosaic](mosaics/cupid_dolphin/s_overview.jpg) |
![Detail of the central design](mosaics/cupid_dolphin/s_detail.jpg) |
An overview of the mosaic |
Detail of the central "Cupid on a Dolphin" motif |
![A bird believed to be the mosaicist's signature](mosaics/cupid_dolphin/s_signature.jpg) |
![The mosaic has subsided somewhat](mosaics/cupid_dolphin/s_subsidence.jpg) |
A bird in the border, believed to be the mosaicist's signature |
Despite laying nearly half a metre of rubble beneath the mosaic, it has still subsided |
Miscellaneous Pictures |
![The scale of the North Wing](misc/s_scale.jpg) |
![A model of the palace](misc/s_palace_model.jpg) |
Looking along the north wing shows the scale of the palace, there is a further building beyond the far wall of the modern cover-building |
A model of how the palace may have looked, the North Wing is the one on the right. |
![the East Wing of the model](misc/s_east_wing.jpg) |
The imposing East Wing of the palace, as it may have appeared to a contemporary Briton approaching from Chichester |
![A reconstructed Roman room](misc/s_room.jpg) |
Sir Mark and Princess Emily looking at a reconstructed room from the palace |
![An incomplete hypocaust](misc/s_hypocaust.jpg) |
![3nd Centuary fire damage](misc/s_fire_damage.jpg) |
The excellently preserved, but never completed hypocaust |
Damage from the fire in the late 3rd Centuary which led to the abandonment of the palace |
Photos from Chichester Cathederal |
![The South Aisle of the cathederal](chichester/s_south_aisle.jpg) |
![Stained Glass in Chappel of St George](chichester/s_stained_glass.jpg) |
Looking East along the South Aisle |
A stained glass window in the Chappel of St George |
![The quire from the south transept](chichester/s_quire.jpg) |
A view of the Quire, including the organ, from the South Tanscept |
![16th Centuary Paintings](chichester/s_16th_c_paintings.jpg) |
16th Centuary paintings in the South Transept, showing St Wilfred receiving a grant of land at Selsey from Caedwalla, King of Wessex, on which to build a church; and Henry VIII giving an assurance of the rights of the Cathederal to Bishop Sherburne |
![the lady chappel](chichester/s_lady_chappel.jpg) |
![the impressive Bell-Arundel Screen](chichester/s_bell_arundel_screen.jpg) |
![A mosaic discovered beneath the cathederal floor](chichester/s_mosaic.jpg) |
The Lady Chappel |
The impressive Bell-Arundel Screen, said to have been erected by Bishop Arundel (1459-1478) |
A mosaic discovered beneath the floor of the Cathederal |