Be there: St. Mary the Virgin, St. Mary in the Marsh, Kent in glorious VR
This is one of those iconic churches that never disappoints. St. Mary is lodged within a bucolic landscape neighboured by the Star Inn pub.
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Treasured places, layered in history
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 1 Sep 2023
I stand and watch the Kentish rag rise up from the dull nights refrain and prick out lines and glyphs that are older than the church itself.
Art Nouveau Hidden Gem is open for Heritage Open Days
What I've discovered about this building is that it keeps on telling. It speaks of an architect who was inspired by his own town and community to create a building in harmony with the spaces around it.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 23 June 2023
It feels like there is a kind of aesthetic gravity at play - that I am being drawn into a celestial whirlpool of beautiful things, flying through the cosmic dust of our historic environment only to be sucked into the divine detritus that adorns our churches.
A Year in the life: 8 June 2022
I’m fascinated by the stuff. Etched within and without the officious walls of our churches are the whispers of ordinary people that found a way of making their mark without others seeing.
A Year in the life: 24 May 2022
Instantly the animal is alive - its head is a blintering mass of moving light which spills out onto the column behind, begetting the head with a sparkling, animated body.
Be there: St. George Hampnett, in glorious VR
The fabric is mainly C12th and C15th but the paint scheme is of the 1870's from the hand of the incumbent at the time.
Be there: St. John the Baptist, Inglesham in glorious VR
St. John the Baptist in Inglesham was a place that taught me how to see.
Be there: Beauchamp Chapel in glorious VR
The chapel was built in the C15th to house the tomb of Richard Beauchamp, the Earl of Warwick.