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# The Rabbit Hole - Romanesque
- URL: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/the-rabbit-hole-romanesque/
- Published: 2026-08-22T22:48:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-22T22:51:58.000Z
- Description: Exploring Romanesque Architecture in Three Buildings
- Author: Andy  Marshall
- Tags: The Rabbit Hole, romanesque

The Rabbit Hole · Romanesque

# Down we go.

Three buildings. Three encounters with the Romanesque

[Choose a threshold ↓](#rh-first) 

**Newport**

**Kilpeck**

**Malmesbury**

## Three lenses on  
the Romanesque

Romanesque, to me, always feels muscular and grounded and yet the cut of the stone takes it into the supernatural.

01 

Newport · fragments into coherence

### A building that remembers.

“Each generation refusing to discard what came before, instead incorporating, re-carving, re-expressing, and carrying it forward.”

[Enter Newport↗](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/in-pursuit-of-spring-day-eight/) 

02 

Kilpeck · a place between

### An oddity in the English landscape.

“That such an exotic thing with Angkor Watt curves can be hidden within the ballast of a grim winter’s day is quite remarkable.”

[Follow the carvings↗](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/field-notes-from-my-camper-van-camino-kilpeck-in-herefordshire/) 

03 

Malmesbury · the observer enters

### A porch becomes a time machine.

“The light is storyboarding the building and unravelling the beliefs, hopes and fears of the medieval mind.”

[Step into the porch↗](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/loci-time-portal-the-porch-at-malmesbury-abbey/) 

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