Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 18 July 2025
Looking after the building and its context speaks to something profoundly human – the impulse to invest ourselves in things that extend beyond our own lifespans.
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Treasured places, layered in history
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 20 June 2025
Whilst I stood and waited for its return, I envisioned notions of time loosening its grip - of fog as a veil not just over landscape, but over centuries.
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.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 28 March 2025
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.
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.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 28 Feb 2025
The weight of history here is a press. I am so taken in by what I see that I sit down on the cold slab to absorb it. This is a place that has held fast in the eddying tides and swells of chaotic times.
Be there: Amongst the ancient landscape at Repton
One of the most remarkable churches in England.
📍Loci: Common Ground
Like the imprint of sand left behind by the receding tide, our absence etches patterns of meaning that linger long after we’re gone.
📍Loci: A 'Wirksworth state of mind'.
I gave myself permission to stop and enjoy it, and to take time to photograph it, inspite of the curious glances from passers by.