✨ Treasure Hoard: The brickwork on North Bar, Beverley
For me, its singularity lies in what it still does: it makes arrival tangible.
For me, its singularity lies in what it still does: it makes arrival tangible.
This is my favourite pub of all time, I've met countless people who have become long term friends here, I've sat sketching here, and kick started many of my digests here - all under the glow of gas-light.
This is how the masons who built this place would have seen it – and now this realm of rarified air, this dwelling place of angels, is soon to be joined by a humbled human being.
Beverley Minster in glorious VR
✨ Many will feel the pull to hurry past these words, gripped by the restless urge to scroll onwards. But should you find the courage to linger, to resist the tide of haste, you will be performing a quiet kind of magic.
After we discovered the WWI graffiti we headed back down to the nave in a kind of torch driven half-light. When we reached the bottom of the stairs in the nave, John tapped me on the shoulder and told me a secret.
In the hope that they help others unburden and renew as much as they have for me it gives me the greatest pleasure to present - in the spirit of Hokusai - my Thirty Six Views of Beverley Minster.
These conservators, these minimal interventionists, aren’t simply curators of the paint pot and infill, but also guardians of a rich cultural tapestry that teaches us what it means to be human.
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