📍Loci: A Grain of Sand.
Like the imprint of sand left behind by the receding tide, our absence etches patterns of meaning that linger long after we’re gone.
medieval
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 5 December 2025
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.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 28 Nov 2025
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.
St. Mary, Lastingham in Glorious VR
St. Mary, Lastingham Interior and Exterior
Bridlington Priory in Glorious VR
Bridlington Priory Interior
Comperandum - Dragon Motif on Metalwork
A nod to Banister Fletcher: 🐲 on metalwork
Be there: The Tanfield Monument, St. John the Baptist, Burford.
For me, this monument is one of the finest in the country – containing the effigies of Sir Lawrence Tanfield and his wife Elizabeth.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 9 May 2025
I walk down through the nave, drawn towards a doorway that cradles a rarefied luminescence — a mingling of dappled colour from stained glass, the glint of refracted light on metal, and a hint of the golden radiance that spring has blessed us with this year.
Be there: Amongst the ancient landscape at Repton
One of the most remarkable churches in England.