2600 subscribers join me on my camper-van-camino through Britain.

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.

Romanesque Architecture

I have a particular fondness for the Romanesque, for as a young architecture detective, I found this particular style to be the easiest to spot. Surviving Romanesque architecture in Britain was largely built by the Normans, but both Anglo-Saxon and Norman architecture in Britain were hold echoes of the...

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.

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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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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.