✨ Treasure Hoard: The striking font at St. Peulan's, Llanbeulan, Anglesey
The key work pattern echoes ancient Egypt and has been found in early Peruvian and Aztec cultures.
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✨ Treasure Hoard: The pulley holding medieval figure at St. Eilian
Might this figure be part of an elaborate pulley system that revealed the host to the congregation during special occasions adding a theatrical dimension to the mystery of the mass?
📍Loci: St. Cwyfan - the salty smack of the sea.
This is a place of transition – between land and water, between heaven and earth, between time and tide. On a quiet, sunlit morning, it feels like a place on the edge of something, caught between the elements.
St. Peulan's, Llanbeulan, Anglesey.
I arrive early at St. Peulan's to capture the sunrise and I'm not disappointed. I take my photographs and then just sit and watch until the sky desaturates into the pale blue of the day.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 16 Feb 2024
What buildings like St. Mary represent is a vast cognitive reserve, a wondrous and sophisticated cosmos of quivering emotional intelligence. This building is full of tiny signatures, a lexicon that betrays the aggregate human attempt at survival in the desperation of a crisis.
⛫ The Cast Room: The C11th Font at St. Peulan, Anglesey.
Welcome to my virtual Cast Room. On my travels, I've been taking augmented reality casts of things that appeal to me. The Cast Room is inspired by the Cast Courts of the V&A which hold a vast selection of casts taken of great works of art all over the globe. Members Only.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 27 Jan 2023
This is a place of transition - between the land and the sea, between heaven and earth and between time and tide.
Modern Marvels: Our Lady Star of the Sea, Anglesey
Built in reinforced concrete the nave is shaped to represent an upturned hull. It was designed in 1932 and is strikingly modern in its outlook.