St. Mary, Lastingham in Glorious VR
St. Mary, Lastingham Interior and Exterior
historic landscape
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 7 March 2025
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.
📍Loci: The Babbling Chronograph
Refined Reflections: The Best of Genius Loci
☀️ Eustace Collection: Hadrian's Wall
As I cycle along the wall, I take in each stone as ballast.
☀️ Eustace Collection: The Sycamore Gap
The tree spoke of continuity and formed a shelter against the fickleness of the present. It told me that, in spite of the extremes of our current age, there are places in our natural and historic environment that are telling.
☀️ Eustace Collection: The Whispering Knights
I walk around the outer edges of the circle (and pick up the crisp packet) - then cut through the centre, past the prostrate couple who are now sitting up and having a smoke. As I move closer the bright orange dot takes shape.
☀️ Eustace Collection: The Wondrous Things We Cannot See
Some people have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to rise up in a tiny capsule to the earth’s perimeter and see the stars through an oval window. There's no comparison to the transcendental nature of the sylvan, alternate reality that is Cheesden.