A four-alarm fire ripped through St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto on Sunday morning, severely damaging a national historic site and destroying the 'priceless' Group of Seven murals inside.
A four-alarm fire ripped through St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto on Sunday morning, severely damaging a national historic site and destroying the"priceless" Group of Seven murals inside.
Early paintings by three Group of Seven members and other prominent Canadian artists were installed along the interior in the 1920s. The murals decorated the chancel and the dome, which was destroyed in the blaze.“The artwork was priceless. It was murals, beautiful murals,” he told reporters."They were stunning.
Crews extinguished the main body of the fire by mid-morning, they said. The cause had not been determined as of Sunday afternoon. Beneath the murals, the interior featured sparkling mosaics of Italian glass-and-gold tile in Byzantine style spanning several walls, decoration that was added in the 1960s.
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