About Me - Learning To See Again
For over twenty years I've been seeking out alternative stories in our surviving material culture and sharing them with my photographs and words.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 3 July 2026
After some time I feel like an imposter. I’ve spent far too long here, so I plough on through the rest of the building without a planned break. After completion, I sign out and step back into the great walled city of York.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 26 June 2026
There is something fitting about encountering a timepiece at a threshold. Before I have even entered the church, I am being reminded that churches are places shaped by passage through time..
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The church has C12 origins, with a C13 chancel, a C15 porch and Victorian additions. Inside are traces of medieval painted decoration, important monuments, a rare chalice-type font with a reeded base, and a reused medieval altar slab.