Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 31 July 26
Time moves through this place like a glacier, gathering fragments from particular moments, carrying cultural moraine and depositing it into the fabric of the present.
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The Priory Church at Breedon on the Hill in glorious VR
A remarkable church with Saxon carvings.
⟁ Member's Supplement: Pre-Conquest Sculptures at Burnsall Church, Yorkshire Dales.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 27 March 2026
What is being gathered here is not just material, but understanding. That we are shaped by these places, as much as we shape them.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 20 March 26
Again there came an unfurling and opening up that comes with looking into another creature’s eye - but this time it was with a building.
Andy Marshall’s Remarkable Anglo-Saxon Survivals You Can Still Visit
If ever there is a testament to a work of art, it is when it makes our digital dystopia (and the devices associated with it) evaporate into the ether.
📍Loci: Bosham - birthplace of Harold Godwinson
Bosham is a place that perfectly matches the title of this digest. Beyond its organic beauty there is a palpable atmosphere that consists of aftershocks to historic events from the past.
📍Loci: All Saints', Brixworth - one of the few surviving C7th buildings in the country.
Here in Brixworth in front of this humble dry stone wall everything is alive: the stone, the moss and even the boundary that it betrays. It's all so bloody beautiful.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 7 March 2025
Amidst the medieval ridge and furrow are lumps and bumps that mark events from the past, reverberating through this place. It was at Repton that a great Viking army wintered in 873 AD under the leadership of Ivar the Boneless. The lumps and bumps are the boundaries of their camp.