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Andy Marshall
Architectural Photographer in a time-travelling camper van. 📸🚐🏛️ Architecture, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture.
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Be there: Portsmouth Cathedral in glorious VR
More than any other cathedral, Portsmouth has a complicated and layered history that, unusually, includes some major C20th interventions.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest 26 May 2023
J.B Priestley equated the time continuum to an omelette. Add Inglesham to the mix and time is a soufflé. Inglesham is like an odd bend in the road of time.
A Year in the life: 24 May 2022
Instantly the animal is alive - its head is a blintering mass of moving light which spills out onto the column behind, begetting the head with a sparkling, animated body.
Be there: St. George Hampnett, in glorious VR
The fabric is mainly C12th and C15th but the paint scheme is of the 1870's from the hand of the incumbent at the time.
Be there: St. John the Baptist, Inglesham in glorious VR
St. John the Baptist in Inglesham was a place that taught me how to see.
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The road less travelled..
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 19 May 2023
Here is the full three days of a remarkable journey into the heart of Pembrokeshire.
A Year in the Life: 18 May 2022
The raking light points out the details: sparkling gobs of ironstone, brick purple-pink impurities, spiralling Fibonacci fossils, flint as black as a rook’s eye. As I walk along the wall towards the former abbey church I spot odd circular pieces of stone.