418: The Old Metropolis (Cathedral): West Elevation

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/3/1/20
Level Item
Dimensions 48.9 x 33.2 cm
Dates 1888?
Donor/Creator Weir Schultz, Mr Robert
Barnsley, Mr Sidney Howard
Scope and Content BRF 01/01/01/036. Colour illustration of the elevation of church titled "The Cathedral Athens The West Elevation Half inch scale." There is a Byzantine Research Fund copyright stamp below the title on the right, with the original archive number written in. The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Old Metropolis (Cathedral): Panaghia Gorgoepekoos, also called St Eleutherios. It probably dates from the 9th century. The walls contain a mass of fragments of classical and early Byzantine sculpture. The church is small for a cathedral, but Byzantine Athens was not a large place. East and west elevations."
Related records [BRF/1/1/1/36], Panagia Gorgoepikoos, 1888?
[BRF/1/1/1/34], Panagia Gorgoepikoos, 1888?