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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 9 May 2025

I walk down through the nave, drawn towards a doorway that cradles a rarefied luminescence — a mingling of dappled colour from stained glass, the glint of refracted light on metal, and a hint of the golden radiance that spring has blessed us with this year.

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 2 May 2025

If the Grand Tour were still a rite of passage, this would be one of its stopping places — visited not for splendour but for its pleasing dereliction.

Genius Loci: Mid-week-pick-me-up

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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 25 April 2025

With the full day ahead of me – and feeling like a lord and master over time – I visit all my usual haunts: breakfast at the Naked Man, a browse through the bookshop on the market square, coffee at the Folly on the hill.

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 18 April 2025

I’ve photographed many projects where artists, artisans and conservators have helped restore—and sometimes transform—the memory of an age, an epithet, a story, a turning point, through a building, a memorial or a piece of art.

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 11 April 2025

Despite the epic scale of the moorland, it is the smallest thing - a chapel - that animates the landscape.

Genius Loci: Mid-week-pick-me-up

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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 4 April 2025

And then, without warning - a chiaroscuro. The landscape delivers its crescendo: the spire of the Marble Church piercing the firmament from a brace of gargoyles, that project above a dip in the distant Clwydian hills.