✨ Treasure Hoard: Treasure Hoard - The Missing Door Hinge at St. Mary's Priory, Monmouth.
Here, the blacksmith has done something remarkable - but, somehow, the loss of part of the hinge has made it more beautiful still.
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✨ Treasure Hoard: The unique Choir Screen at Lichfield Cathedral
For me the screen filters the boundary between public and sacred - the screen turns separation into invitation.
📍Loci: Breaking The Frame: How a Single Photograph Became a Threshold.
And perhaps this is where the photograph does its best work. Not in what it contains, but in what it releases.
Comperandum - Dragon Motif on Metalwork
A nod to Banister Fletcher: 🐲 on metalwork
⟁ Members' Supplement: The million petalled flower of Repoussé - Callcott, Poole and Wilson.
Deeper dives into place and people for Members Only
☀️ Eustace Collection: 1620
Weighed down with the complexities of modernity, I stand before the porch of St. Peter and St. Paul and take on the mantra of Bacon's Novum Organum.
☀️ Eustace Collection: The Atom
I place my thumb upon the latch and press. It makes a delicious ‘click and clump.’ I think of the person I’ve just seen walk in through the door before me. They pressed it too.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 17 Nov 2023
If I were a Banksy or an Emin, and presented the world with an object that had been shaped by the collated, nuanced press of several thousand people over five hundred years, I’d think I was onto something.
Be there: Lichfield Cathedral West Front Door in glorious VR
The west front doors at Lichfield are covered in decorative metalwork. They warrant a closer inspection - the clasps and keyhole covers are as intricate as the cusping on the stone work.