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St. John the Baptist Church in Burford, Oxfordshire, rises from Cotswold stone in complete harmony with the landscape that surrounds it

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 6 June 2025

Here’s my chance to have parity with the generations that might listen to the final note of Longplayer in 975 years’ time. Here’s my chance to look down upon a thousand-year thread of time and try to comprehend what this building means to me.

Be there: The Tanfield Monument, St. John the Baptist, Burford.

For me, this monument is one of the finest in the country – containing the effigies of Sir Lawrence Tanfield and his wife Elizabeth.

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 30 May 2025

In recent times, I’ve noticed a shift in my emotions—a kind of angst driven by the current state of the world, followed by a re-purposing of how I want to navigate it.

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

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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 23 May 2025

Beneath its surface, the meadow seems to live and breath — buttercups, sorrel, long grass — all caught in the current, wriggling and swaying as if in conversation with the stream. I sit beside it and stay for a while.

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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 16 May 2025

And so it seems fitting—uncannily fitting—that the man standing in the rubble should bear the name he did. Piper. Pipe. Conduit.

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