✨ 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.
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✨ Treasure Hoard: Ghost House Gable, Wirksworth
Later brickwork has enclosed the frame, preserving it like a fossil within its successor.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 28 August 26
What existed in the landscape as strata and outcrop has been quarried, squared, carved and reassembled into columns and arches. For a moment, here in the nave, the distinction between building and landscape begins to blur.
⟁ Members' Supplement: The buildings of Melbourne, Derbyshire.
Deeper dives into place and people for Members Only
Video of St. Mary & St. Barlok, Norbury
Exterior and interior video of this remarkable church.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 24 July 2026
The steadfast presence of this humble church has held up a mirror to the significant changes in me.
St. Mary and St. Barlok, Norbury in glorious VR
A hidden gem in Derbyshire in VR
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 15 May 2026
As I follow each cursive curve and incision, I begin to sense the song of the person who etched it into the metal surface. The plate ceases to be an artefact pinned beneath history and becomes something warmer and more immediate
Boothby Chapel, St. Oswald's, Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
In glorious VR.