The Watts Chapel, somewhere down the A3, England

[smokingboot]

A post for my scrapbook of the beautiful and bizarre, x-posted to 19th_century.


This chapel is quite extraordinary. It's got a touch of every influence you expect from the artistic imagination of Victorian England: Pre-raphaelite, Celtic, Egyptian and Indian all created by Mrs Watts, herself a curiously true-to-form Gaskellian archetype: a hardworking lady philanthropist/devoted wife/social liberal reformer/spiritualist determined to express herself through her visions and help the poor away from 'the gin palaces of Guildford' at the same time.

The Watts Chapel link is rich in info but poor on pictures, which is why, fascinating though it is, it's the last link I have added. When the_lore introduced me to the chapel I had no camera so I apologise for relying on other people's images.


Here's the Watts Chapel from the outside:

http://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/northdowns/images/gallery/03-2021_g.jpg


These are interior details:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nouveau/14990846/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nouveau/14990296/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/castrovalva/63274425/in/photostream/

And here's the link with the info:
http://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/wattschapel.htm



Still not writing what I want to write. That may have to wait till night time. Must try not to fall asleep.