✨ Treasure Hoard: The First Glimpse Through the Door at Inglesham
When the shadows lengthened, I set about the golden section: lining up the stiff-leaf capitals and intersecting doors.
Andy Marshall
Architectural Photographer in a time-travelling camper van. 📸🚐🏛️ Architecture, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture.
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✨ Treasure Hoard: The Lychgate at St. Mary's Church, Ashwell
What is so appealing about timber framed buildings is the honesty of their construction - not a morsel wasted - everything is structural, has a purpose - and out of that is extruded a kind of sinuous beauty.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Tom Denny Tisbury Window
For this glass, this work of art, is not just for the believer, the in-crowd, the participant - but it’s also for ordinary people like me.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Great Screen and Altar Piece, Southwark Cathedral
Each generation seems to have understood the underlying rhythm of the whole - adding another thread without unravelling what came before.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Grave Marker of King Canute's Daughter, Bosham
Viking king, lost child, Saxon earl and Norman invasion seem to knot themselves around this grave marker.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Minton Mosaic Floor at Bury Parish Church
Laid by Minton, its circles, stars and interlocking geometries draw the eye ever deeper into the pattern, revealing new relationships the longer you look.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Chapter House at Lincoln Cathedral
Nothing is merely decorative: this organic geometry carries weight, gathers light and gives utility the unmistakable shape of joy.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Dragons on the Chapter House Door at York Minster
The light is low, and as I look through the portal up towards the vaulting I see dragons. At the top of the open door that leads into the chapter house is the upward thrusting head of a dragon.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Floating Roof Boss at Beverley Minster
Next to me, the boss is the size of a dinner table – but from the tower crossing far below, it appears no more than a tiny dot.