The Rabbit Hole · Romanesque
Down we go.
Three buildings. Three encounters with the Romanesque
Choose a thresholdNewport
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.
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 NewportKilpeck · 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 carvingsMalmesbury · 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
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