Some people have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to rise up in a tiny capsule to the earth’s perimeter and see the stars through an oval window. There's no comparison to the transcendental nature of the sylvan, alternate reality that is Cheesden.
House for an Art Lover was built in the 1990's to a design by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
I place my thumb upon the latch and press. It makes a delicious ‘click and clump.’ I think of the person I’ve just seen walk in through the door before me. They pressed it too.
The yew at Breamore (pronounced Bremmer) is situated alongside the path to the remarkable Anglo Saxon church.
The chestnut bench ends are highly decorated and are said to be of C16th date, re-arranged in the 1850’s.
If I were a Banksy or an Emin, and presented the world with an object that had been shaped by the collated, nuanced press of several thousand people over five hundred years, I’d think I was onto something.
The whole church is a delight (the hedgehog bakery not far away either). Look closely above the ark carving and you'll see the faint outline of a Gothic script.
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