Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 10 July 2026
Chesterton once wrote that the object of travel is to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. I don’t think I understood what he meant until I turned into Hornpot Lane.
Andy Marshall
Architectural Photographer in a time-travelling camper van. 📸🚐🏛️ Architecture, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture.
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⟁ Members' Supplement: Pre-Conquest Sculptures at Burnsall Church, Yorkshire Dales.
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📍Loci: If Buildings Could Speak: The Secret Life of the Ancient Church at Boveney
I am a totem to them. Without me they feel rudderless. They have imprinted me with their hopes and fears, their gains and losses, their happiness and sorrow.
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.
⟁ Members' Supplement: The Snickelways of York: Monk's Bar to Three Cranes
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📍Loci: Hebden Bridge and the Forgotten Language of Place
Places that are rich in semantics are fertile ground for reinforcing community and helping it navigate the present.
📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: A Walk along the Thames to Windsor
From St. Mary Magdalene, Boveney to WIndsor
📍Loci: The Rollright Stones: Finding Sanctuary in an Age of Distraction
There’s nobody else here, so I pull the camera from my bag and start to take some photographs, until I’m shuttered by an overwhelming feeling to strip back - to remove the paraphernalia of modernity.
Guest Post: Belonging Through Stone - from Tom Brown (Master Stone Carver)
For me, that is where belonging comes in: not simply being invited to look at a historic place, but being trusted to contribute to it.