Be there: Hexham, Northumberland in Glorious VR
The honeycombed burgage and the curvilinear streets rise from town to abbey to reveal a continuity of purpose
Andy Marshall
Architectural Photographer in a time-travelling camper van. 📸🚐🏛️ Architecture, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 30 August 2024
At Hopwood, where Byron’s feet had trod, lumpy clods of plaster had fallen, making their presence known beneath my soles - prickly protestations at the status quo.
Aerial Video of Hexham Abbey, Northumberland.
Hexham has a townscape that rises in benevolence to the stocky tower of the church dedicated to St Andrew. Formerly an abbey, the church is a wonderful amalgam of different periods clashing together.
Genius Loci: Mid-week-pick-me-up
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 23 August 2024
I’m feeling very low. It’s the perfect storm—a toxic cocktail of intersecting events that hits deep into my self-esteem.
Be there: St. Mary, Itchen Stoke, in glorious VR
If anybody wants to get a sense of Sainte-Chapelle without the expense of travelling to Paris, they should head for Itchen Stoke.
⟁ Member's Supplement: St. Mary, Itchen Stoke, Hampshire - Full Set of Photographs
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 16 August 2024
All the best things are double-baked—in this case, built and built again. Many of the stones that have held up the walls for over 1,300 years were tooled and carved by the hands of Romans.