The naturalistic carved font at St. Mary, Wreay
For me this place is prescient: it has themes and portents ahead of its time.
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The Saxon Script at St. Mary's Breamore
A remarkable survival - Anglo-Saxon door and inscription
📍Loci: Face to face with a host of angels in King's Lynn
Holiness is in the the earth-song of the peeling paint and the arborescent echo from the fissured faces, and sanctity is in the rhythm of the truss, the pattern in the bracing and the un-mappable outpourings of human endeavour held within these walls.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 28 August 26
What existed in the landscape as strata and outcrop has been quarried, squared, carved and reassembled into columns and arches. For a moment, here in the nave, the distinction between building and landscape begins to blur.
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