
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.
Despite the epic scale of the moorland, it is the smallest thing - a chapel - that animates the landscape.
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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.
A Roman Catholic chapel at Biddlestone, built atop a medieval pele tower.
I think it’s because there’s a clarity of message here - a kind of truth that asks nothing of you. Not the sort that needs proving or defending, but one that is simply known, absorbed.
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I think of how fortunate we are to have these places. I’m grateful for the spaces that engage us, that challenge the mundanity of the everyday.
Then, instinctively, I reach into my bag. My fingers graze the edge of my sketchbook. It’s such a comforting feeling - that first touch tingles because of the depth of its meaning. Should I?
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