📍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.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 9 May 2025
I walk down through the nave, drawn towards a doorway that cradles a rarefied luminescence — a mingling of dappled colour from stained glass, the glint of refracted light on metal, and a hint of the golden radiance that spring has blessed us with this year.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 1 Mar 2024
These conservators, these minimal interventionists, aren’t simply curators of the paint pot and infill, but also guardians of a rich cultural tapestry that teaches us what it means to be human.
📍Loci: What will survive of us is instinct.
Larkin is telling us to trust our instincts - to see through the rhetoric of the day - a rhetoric that sometimes constructs a reality that is so absurd and yet so real and pervasive at times.
A Year in the life: 12 July 2022
Emerging from beyond the lime wash is a ghost angel. The faint outline of a face and wings. I’m told that the eye emerged first and then the face and that, as the wash wears away, more might be revealed.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 28 April 2023
And so I find myself, over three days, encapsulated like a fly in amber within the bounds of that gaze.
Be there: Beauchamp Chapel in glorious VR
The chapel was built in the C15th to house the tomb of Richard Beauchamp, the Earl of Warwick.
🟨 Treasure Hoard Entry: Ghost Angel at St. Mary, Warwick
Andy Marshall's Treasure Hoard Gazetteer.