Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 6 Nov 26
I couldn't help but be moved by the way it seemed to sum up how the past can press itself upon the present - how something so distant, so seemingly unreachable, can suddenly feel so close.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 30 Oct 26
There is something extraordinary in the way an act so small can reach across time, taking something that might otherwise have been lost and folding it back into the continuum of the building's life.
Peterborough Cathedral in glorious VR
Peterborough Cathedral and the Infirmary
✨ Treasure Hoard: The pulley holding medieval figure at St. Eilian
Might this figure be part of an elaborate pulley system that revealed the host to the congregation during special occasions adding a theatrical dimension to the mystery of the mass?
The Priory Church at Breedon on the Hill in glorious VR
A remarkable church with Saxon carvings.
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.