✨ Treasure Hoard: Ghost House Gable, Wirksworth
Later brickwork has enclosed the frame, preserving it like a fossil within its successor.
Later brickwork has enclosed the frame, preserving it like a fossil within its successor.
If ever there is a testament to a work of art, it is when it makes our digital dystopia (and the devices associated with it) evaporate into the ether.
I gave myself permission to stop and enjoy it, and to take time to photograph it, inspite of the curious glances from passers by.
Wirksworth changed the way I see things and I'm thankful for that.
This is a view of the chancel at St. Mary, Wirksworth with its fine encaustic floor tiles and the tomb of Sir Anthony Lowe, gentleman of the bedchamber to both Henry VII, Henry VIII and Edward VI.
Pure Scroll....
Situated in the north aisle of St. Mary's Parish Church the Wirksworth stone is dated to around 800AD.
St. Mary in Wirksworth in Derbyshire has a remarkable layered history with material artefacts that represent the Anglo-Saxon period onwards.
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