✨ Treasure Hoard: The C18th Gilded Falcon Sign, Micklegate, York
It’s as if the sign itself became a talisman, drawing the building back into its original role - calling it home again as a pub into the present day.
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✨ Treasure Hoard: The Medieval Stained Glass at St. Mary and St. Barlok, Norbury
...the real magic is knowing that we are seeing the same light in the same space as the same people that installed it in 1306.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Sheela-na-gig carving at St. Mary and St. David, Kilpeck
A Sheela-na-gig offers a startlingly different lens on the medieval world. Grotesque, explicit and deeply ambiguous, such carvings reveal how tastes, meanings and sensitivities have changed.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Anglo-Saxon Christ in Majesty Sculpture at St. John, Barnack
It has a Byzantine quality and the exposed belly reminds me of the pot-bellied Buddha statues.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The walls of James Street, Lincoln
The walls are not mute. They tell me of the people that first came here, they impart the clay that lies beneath, they teach me of the geology of this place and reflect the pattern of nature.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Concrete Vaulting & Stairs, Liverpool Anglican Cathedral
The journey into the tower is essential. Inside, it feels less like a cathedral than an immense industrial grain silo: cavernous, raw and utterly unexpected.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Doorway to the Folly, Settle
Its finest secret rewards a visitor who crosses the threshold and looks back, beneath the inner lintel.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Glass Roof of the British Museum
It's a marvel that never ceases to surprise or lift me, every time I enter - a destination in itself.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Roman Tomb of a Woman from the Cornovii Tribe
Within a single object we seem to encounter several different Britains at once.