✨ Treasure Hoard: The Kissing Squeeze Stile at Middleham
Two monoliths lean towards one another, their great positive masses made meaningful by the sliver of negative space between. Pass through and the body completes the design.
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✨ Treasure Hoard: The Dragons on the Chapter House Door at York Minster
The light is low, and as I look through the portal up towards the vaulting I see dragons. At the top of the open door that leads into the chapter house is the upward thrusting head of a dragon.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Floating Roof Boss at Beverley Minster
Next to me, the boss is the size of a dinner table – but from the tower crossing far below, it appears no more than a tiny dot.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Art Nouveau Pulpit at Ripon Cathedral
Resting upon marble, it feels almost organic - as though it has grown from the cathedral floor and might continue growing.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond
Imagine all of the lessons absorbed within those walls over the centuries - audiences encountering the hubris of Macbeth, the crumbling pride of Ozymandias..
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Minstrels at Selby Abby
The minstrel appears to gaze out across the city while we stand beside it. For a moment we share its viewpoint.
✨ 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 C18th Gilded Falcon Sign, Micklegate, York
It’s as if the sign itself became a talisman, drawing the building back into its original role - calling it home again as a pub into the present day.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Doorway to the Folly, Settle
Its finest secret rewards a visitor who crosses the threshold and looks back, beneath the inner lintel.