
Be there: St. Mary the Virgin, St. Mary in the Marsh, Kent in glorious VR
This is one of those iconic churches that never disappoints. St. Mary is lodged within a bucolic landscape neighboured by the Star Inn pub.
Treasured places, layered in history
This is one of those iconic churches that never disappoints. St. Mary is lodged within a bucolic landscape neighboured by the Star Inn pub.
I stand and watch the Kentish rag rise up from the dull nights refrain and prick out lines and glyphs that are older than the church itself.
A nod to Banister Fletcher: Church Towers
What I've discovered about this building is that it keeps on telling. It speaks of an architect who was inspired by his own town and community to create a building in harmony with the spaces around it.
It feels like there is a kind of aesthetic gravity at play - that I am being drawn into a celestial whirlpool of beautiful things, flying through the cosmic dust of our historic environment only to be sucked into the divine detritus that adorns our churches.
The fabric is mainly C12th and C15th but the paint scheme is of the 1870's from the hand of the incumbent at the time.
St. John the Baptist in Inglesham was a place that taught me how to see.
The chapel was built in the C15th to house the tomb of Richard Beauchamp, the Earl of Warwick.
As soon as I stepped into it I felt as though the recumbent incumbents might rise in admonition.
The west front doors at Lichfield are covered in decorative metalwork. They warrant a closer inspection - the clasps and keyhole covers are as intricate as the cusping on the stone work.
The Genius Loci Digest is as much yours as it is mine.
St. Patrick in Patrington is a wonderful creation of the Decorated period of Gothic architecture in the early C14th.