Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 12 April 2024
It’s difficult to explain, but my eyes seem to act like cruise missiles - spotting a potential target and then locking onto the detail.
Andy Marshall
Architectural Photographer in a time-travelling camper van. 📸🚐🏛️ Architecture, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture.
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🟨 Treasure Hoard Entry: The Bone Chests of Winchester Cathedral
At Winchester Cathedral, along the top of the screens to the presbytery are six caskets. Each one has been inscribed with lettering.
Be there: Winchester Cathedral - The Great Screen & Choir
Surely one of the marvels of the late medieval world? The Great Screen was completed in 1476 and forms the backdrop (reredos) to the altar.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 5 April 2024
In the hope that they help others unburden and renew as much as they have for me it gives me the greatest pleasure to present - in the spirit of Hokusai - my Thirty Six Views of Beverley Minster.
Be there: Installing a traditional ceiling by Philip Gaches
We're inside a medieval building with panelled walls - the scene is part way through the installation of a traditional ceiling with decorative ribwork and motifs.
Time lapse video of the Sandwich Ceiling from platering to laying out the geometry
Philip Gaches and his team plaster the ceiling and then mark out the geometric shapes that will form the decorative ribwork of the ceiling pattern.
Genius Loci: Mid-week-pick-me-up
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 29 March 2024
It is the humble hand where all this starts - from the first stone laid at the Roman basilica that lies beneath, through to the final carving of the pinnacles that pin down the grandeur of the Gothic church. This is a story about people.