✨ Treasure Hoard: Holy Air Encased in Stone at Repton
The columns themselves are remarkable – spiralled, as if frozen mid-turn, glowing faintly in the half-light.
The columns themselves are remarkable – spiralled, as if frozen mid-turn, glowing faintly in the half-light.
When I see the space for the first time, as if by some kind of enchantment, the worn curvature of the step is converted into a wondrous and wider sense of the curvature of time.
The medieval crypt
It is as though the earth during its infancy first carved out a fold - a hollow that sat somewhere within the realms of Fibonacci - a proportion drawn from the same geometry that threads itself through constellations.
When I walk back up into the nave, the visitor is there at the top of the steps, sat in a chair - as if he knew of the tenderness that was taking place beneath and was unable to enter in upon it.
Join me as we enter the church at St. Mary's Lastingham.
St. Mary, Lastingham Interior and Exterior
An opportunity to own an original piece from my 4x5 Khadi Papers sketchbook: an ink and watercolour drawing of the Anglo-Saxon crypt at Repton painted on 100% fibre, textured cotton rag paper.
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.
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