✨ Treasure Hoard: Market Hall Floor at Chipping Campden
The Market Hall is a destination in itself - a classical double arcaded loggia built in ashlar with a wagon ceiling.
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The Market Hall is a destination in itself - a classical double arcaded loggia built in ashlar with a wagon ceiling.
It holds within its walls something quite unique for these parts - a Romanesque shrine.
Gimber or gimmer is a name for a hinge. A wiver is a long beam. They were all mentioned in a description of the chest by W.O.V in 1949.
The fabric is infused by the people who made it and is sacred in the act of bringing people together for a common purpose that goes beyond any monetary aims or values.
For me, its singularity lies in what it still does: it makes arrival tangible.
For me the screen filters the boundary between public and sacred - the screen turns separation into invitation.
Barracks Ope descends from the seventeenth-century Old High Street, through Jane’s Court to Packet Quays.
Yet beneath the joke lies the delicious prospect of comeuppance: the weak combining against the powerful.
I love the concept of a canopy of honour. It hovers like a rainbow over the altar - embracing and protecting the most sacred of places.
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