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📍Loci: The Monastic Barn at Grimwith Reservoir, Yorkshire Dales.
Refined Reflections: The Best of Genius Loci
Refined Reflections: The Best of Genius Loci
Refined Reflections: The Best of Genius Loci
I'm heading out with a spring in my step and a heavy heart.
Laithe, henge and church. I can’t help but think that these standing stones are of equal measure.
We sit beside the porch and take in the churchyard. Whilst we rest, billows of dust plume out of the porch entrance. The dust-busters are in.
I notice the ridge finial detail - it curves downwards and cups the gable - it reminds me of Sir Basil Spence’s Coventry Cathedral. The covered entrance at Coventry echoes the protective curve of the barn finial.
The landscape here is storied with several thousand years of human interaction. Its narrative unfolds from a single visual perspective and can, on occasion, jolt the senses from one extreme to another.
Memory, place and continuity in the Yorkshire Dales