✨ Treasure Hoard: The Majestas and the Wishbone Arch, Llandaff Cathedral
The old stone gives the concrete gravity; the concrete makes the stone feel newly visible.
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✨ Treasure Hoard: Roman bricks in the wall at St. Martin's, Canterbury
Claimed to be the oldest church in the English speaking world.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Galilee Chapel, Durham Cathedral
Here, mass begins to dissolve into pattern, light and shadow; Romanesque architecture appears poised on the brink of transformation.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond
Imagine all of the lessons absorbed within those walls over the centuries - audiences encountering the hubris of Macbeth, the crumbling pride of Ozymandias..
✨ Treasure Hoard: Collin Croft, Kendal
A walk up to and through the ginnel that cuts into the croft is a layercake of material culture, local Cumbrian vernacular and organic textures.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Door Clasp at Brougham Hall
The bronze ring hangs from a fantastical beast’s mouth, alive with eyes, curling forms and the drama of a wild beast.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Minstrels at Selby Abby
The minstrel appears to gaze out across the city while we stand beside it. For a moment we share its viewpoint.
✨ Treasure Hoard:The Birnam Oak, Dunkeld
It was Birnam that became the turning point in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. After his violent ascent to kingship
✨ Treasure Hoard: The ancient whale shaped stone in the north transept at Stobo Kirk
One of them - set into the wall - looks like a whale: a creature from deep time surfacing into the stony present.