✨ Treasure Hoard: The Solomonic Columns of Clifton House, King's Lynn
It was a merchant's house, founded in the C13th, and has grown organically ever since then.
norfolk
14 posts
📍Loci: Face to face with a host of angels in King's Lynn
Holiness is in the the earth-song of the peeling paint and the arborescent echo from the fissured faces, and sanctity is in the rhythm of the truss, the pattern in the bracing and the un-mappable outpourings of human endeavour held within these walls.
📍Loci: How a sausage roll, two strangers and a camera uncovered hidden Thetford
The Photo Detectorist
✨ Treasure Hoard: Medieval Angel Roof at St. Nicholas, King's Lynn
Holiness is in the the earth-song of the peeling paint and the arborescent echo from the fissured faces, and sanctity is in the rhythm of the truss, the pattern in the bracing and the un-mappable outpourings of human endeavour held within these walls.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 27 September 2024
Relief washes over me—something new to explore, a welcome distraction from the mental clutter of the morning’s news.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 20 September 2024
And there are rumours that the synchronicity that sprang from the Roman temple inspired the medieval scholar Alcuin to build the Alma Sophia (Holy Wisdom) here.
⛫ The Cast Room: The Woodwose at St. Nicholas, North Walsham
Welcome to my virtual Cast Room. On my travels, I've been taking augmented reality casts of things that appeal to me. The Cast Room is inspired by the Cast Courts of the V&A which hold a vast selection of casts taken of great works of art all over the globe. Members Only.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 19 July 2024
Inside the nave, the vaulting is a vast geometry caught in Medusa’s gaze, but here the softened, soapy Caen unfurls fern-like.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 12 July 2024
I've rarely been to a place that so deeply embodies the human need to express their hopes and fears through architecture.