📍Loci: Ashwell - Medieval Graffiti Centre of the World?
The medieval inhabitants of Ashwell chose to leave their mark in the material fabric of St. Mary's church.
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📍Loci: Britain’s Lichen Fields – Sanctuaries of Awe
For me, more than any diamond-encrusted piece of jewellery, I find myself captivated by the visceral beauty of a lichen-encrusted churchyard.
📍Loci: All Saints', Brixworth - one of the few surviving C7th buildings in the country.
Here in Brixworth in front of this humble dry stone wall everything is alive: the stone, the moss and even the boundary that it betrays. It's all so bloody beautiful.
📍Loci: Buildings Speak? Yes They Do.
If ever there is an argument for a building that might dispel the disbelief of a radio jock, then it is the Beauchamp Chapel at St. Mary's in Warwick.
📍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.
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