The Priory Church at Breedon on the Hill in glorious VR
A remarkable church with Saxon carvings.
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St. Mary and St. Barlok, Norbury in glorious VR
A hidden gem in Derbyshire in VR
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 10 July 2026
Chesterton once wrote that the object of travel is to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. I don’t think I understood what he meant until I turned into Hornpot Lane.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 3 July 2026
After some time I feel like an imposter. I’ve spent far too long here, so I plough on through the rest of the building without a planned break. After completion, I sign out and step back into the great walled city of York.
📍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.
📍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.