Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 12 September 2025
This is how the masons who built this place would have seen it – and now this realm of rarified air, this dwelling place of angels, is soon to be joined by a humbled human being.
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Through the ceiling boss at Beverley Minster in glorious VR.
Beverley Minster in glorious VR
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 6 June 2025
Here’s my chance to have parity with the generations that might listen to the final note of Longplayer in 975 years’ time. Here’s my chance to look down upon a thousand-year thread of time and try to comprehend what this building means to me.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 25 April 2025
With the full day ahead of me – and feeling like a lord and master over time – I visit all my usual haunts: breakfast at the Naked Man, a browse through the bookshop on the market square, coffee at the Folly on the hill.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 10 Jan 2025
After we discovered the WWI graffiti we headed back down to the nave in a kind of torch driven half-light. When we reached the bottom of the stairs in the nave, John tapped me on the shoulder and told me a secret.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 20 December 2024
The genius of this place is revealed in how its inhabitants shaped the land to serve their needs, while letting the land shape them in return..
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 22 Nov 2024
In the midst of Richmond I found an invincible joy in the accumulation of the past within the honeycombed streets.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 8 Nov 2024
The climb to the castle heights takes me from the market's hustle and bustle to the whistle of the wind through the ramparts. With every metre gained in height, the clamour below gradually evaporates.
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