✨ Treasure Hoard: The Bone Chests of Winchester Cathedral
That so many of England’s makers and shakers should lie gathered in this extraordinary concentration of bones is remarkable.
Andy Marshall
Architectural Photographer in a time-travelling camper van. 📸🚐🏛️ Architecture, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture.
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✨ Treasure Hoard: The brick fields of Hightown beach, Hightown.
The walls they kissed against, threw balls against, are now fragments on the shoreline.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Time Travel Portal at Malmesbury Abbey.
Inside the observer is set up in a theocentric virtual reality depicting Christ in Majesty on the tympanum and the apostles on the side walls.
✨ Treasure Hoard: Market Hall Floor at Chipping Campden
The Market Hall is a destination in itself - a classical double arcaded loggia built in ashlar with a wagon ceiling.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Romanesque Shrine at St. Melangell, Wales
It holds within its walls something quite unique for these parts - a Romanesque shrine.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The medieval oak chest at St. Mary Barton-upon-Humber
Gimber or gimmer is a name for a hinge. A wiver is a long beam. They were all mentioned in a description of the chest by W.O.V in 1949.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Textile Map and Kneelers at St. Mary, Ketton
The fabric is infused by the people who made it and is sacred in the act of bringing people together for a common purpose that goes beyond any monetary aims or values.
✨ 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 unique Choir Screen at Lichfield Cathedral
For me the screen filters the boundary between public and sacred - the screen turns separation into invitation.