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.
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Treasured places, layered in history
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 1 Sep 2023
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.
Comperandum - Church Towers
A nod to Banister Fletcher: Church Towers
Art Nouveau Hidden Gem is open for Heritage Open Days
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.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 23 June 2023
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.
Be there: St. George Hampnett, in glorious VR
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.
Be there: St. John the Baptist, Inglesham in glorious VR
St. John the Baptist in Inglesham was a place that taught me how to see.
Be there: Beauchamp Chapel in glorious VR
The chapel was built in the C15th to house the tomb of Richard Beauchamp, the Earl of Warwick.
Medusa’s gaze at All Saints' Harewood
As soon as I stepped into it I felt as though the recumbent incumbents might rise in admonition.
Be there: Lichfield Cathedral West Front Door in glorious VR
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.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest 14 April 2023
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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.