✨ Treasure Hoard: Treasure Hoard - The Missing Door Hinge at St. Mary's Priory, Monmouth.
Here, the blacksmith has done something remarkable - but, somehow, the loss of part of the hinge has made it more beautiful still.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 11 Sep 2026
The gaps allow things to reveal their character - the space around a form, the lapse in a conversation, the silence that lets us recognise what we’ve heard.
✨ 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.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Romanesque Shrine at St. Melangell, Wales
It holds within its walls something quite unique for these parts - a Romanesque shrine.
✨ 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 pulley holding medieval figure at St. Eilian
Might this figure be part of an elaborate pulley system that revealed the host to the congregation during special occasions adding a theatrical dimension to the mystery of the mass?
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Medieval Rood Screen Painted In Ox-blood At St. Ellyw's, Llanelieu
There's something special about entering a church. The best places evoke a feeling of transition upon entrance. There's no exception here.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Two Faced Janus at St. Anno's Llananno
The Janus springs from pagan symbolism and often symbolises change or the changing of the year.
In Pursuit of Spring - Day Eight
A journey (now complete) on my camper-van-camino from the Scottish Highlands to Cornwall. Each day, on this journey, I wrote a short post and produced a watercolour drawn from the day’s experiences.