Be there: The Queen of Holderness in glorious VR
St. Patrick in Patrington is a wonderful creation of the Decorated period of Gothic architecture in the early C14th.
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Aerial Video of All Saints, Easington, Yorkshire
A church that leads to the sea, with a delightful C12th nave and an unusual ship grafitto on a column in the arcade.
Aerial Video of St. Patrick, Patrington, Yorkshire
St. Patrick in Patrington is a wonderful creation of the Decorated period of Gothic architecture in the early C14th.
Aerial Video of St. Mary, Wirksworth, Derbyshire.
St. Mary in Wirksworth in Derbyshire has a remarkable layered history with material artefacts that represent the Anglo-Saxon period onwards.
Video: A day in the life of
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Aerial Video of Pershore Abbey, Worcestershire
Pershore Abbey is a hidden gem. You can spend a delightful day there exploring the abbey and the town which has some wonderful Regency brick architecture (and a few timber-framed delights).
Be there: the Gothic vaulted interior at Pershore Abbey in glorious VR
The Abbey Church of Holy Cross or Pershore Abbey has a wonderful vaulted interior of the C13th with tierceron vaults that explode like fireworks.
Be there: the Angel Roof at March in glorious VR
The Angel Roof at St. Wendreda in March, Cambridgeshire is breathtaking. It's impact, for me, comes from the doubling up of angels on the jackposts and hammerbeams.
The Latch
During my visit, I enter the church via the porch which has an angel topped gate that houses a lock and latch that is a shrine in itself - a secular shrine to its maker.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 27 Jan 2023
This is a place of transition - between the land and the sea, between heaven and earth and between time and tide.
Be there: Llandaff Cathedral Wales in glorious VR
I love George Pace - for me, he was the only architect that confronted Gothic head on in the C20th - turning his designs into a new evolved form of Gothic that was representative of his age.
Aerial Video of St. Melangell, Powys, Wales.
MEMBERS ONLY This really is a magical place - more realm, than place. Because of its location - at the head of a glacial valley, surrounded by hills full of pine and conifer. Check out the yew trees on the boundary (which is Bronze Age) - they are over 2000...