✨ Treasure Hoard: The Romanesque Shrine at St. Melangell, Wales
It holds within its walls something quite unique for these parts - a Romanesque shrine.
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✨ Treasure Hoard: The medieval oak chest at St. Mary Barton-upon-Humber
Gimber or gimmer is a name for a hinge. A wiver is a long beam. They were all mentioned in a description of the chest by W.O.V in 1949.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Textile Map and Kneelers at St. Mary, Ketton
The fabric is infused by the people who made it and is sacred in the act of bringing people together for a common purpose that goes beyond any monetary aims or values.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The brickwork on North Bar, Beverley
For me, its singularity lies in what it still does: it makes arrival tangible.
✨ 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.
✨ Treasure Hoard: Barrack's Ope, Falmouth, Cornwall
Barracks Ope descends from the seventeenth-century Old High Street, through Jane’s Court to Packet Quays.
✨ Treasure Hoard: Pigs attacking a wolf, St. David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire
Yet beneath the joke lies the delicious prospect of comeuppance: the weak combining against the powerful.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The mwd at St. Benedict, Gyffin, Conwy
I love the concept of a canopy of honour. It hovers like a rainbow over the altar - embracing and protecting the most sacred of places.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The clasp and latch at Tuxlith Chapel, West Sussex
Not everything needs to be shiny and new to be perfect. Because of its age and patina, this latch from Tuxlith Chapel, West Sussex, has achieved a status beyond utility.