✨ Treasure Hoard: Treasure Hoard - The Missing Door Hinge at St. Mary's Priory, Monmouth.
Here, the blacksmith has done something remarkable - but, somehow, the loss of part of the hinge has made it more beautiful still.
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✨ Treasure Hoard: The First Glimpse Through the Door at Inglesham
When the shadows lengthened, I set about the golden section: lining up the stiff-leaf capitals and intersecting doors.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Dragons on the Chapter House Door at York Minster
The light is low, and as I look through the portal up towards the vaulting I see dragons. At the top of the open door that leads into the chapter house is the upward thrusting head of a dragon.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Door Clasp at Brougham Hall
The bronze ring hangs from a fantastical beast’s mouth, alive with eyes, curling forms and the drama of a wild beast.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The clasp and latch at Tuxlith Chapel, West Sussex
Not everything needs to be shiny and new to be perfect. Because of its age and patina, this latch from Tuxlith Chapel, West Sussex, has achieved a status beyond utility.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Medieval Oak Door at St. Mary, Higham
Within this framework are roses, lilies, foliage and small human faces, along with a Green Man, an old bearded figure and a bird. Parts of its original ironwork also remain.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Gothic Door, Carved Angel, Fire Mark combo - De Vaux House, Salisbury
Its cusped Gothic panels retain the touch of the medieval craftsman
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Doorway to the Folly, Settle
Its finest secret rewards a visitor who crosses the threshold and looks back, beneath the inner lintel.
Behind The Photograph: Planes and Surfaces, Burano, Venice.
What looks at first like a picture of three flat facades slowly becomes something else...