✨ Treasure Hoard: The Anglo Saxon Tower at All Saints Church, Earls Barton
The Saxons didn't have a stone building culture - indeed timber derives from an old Saxon word meaning 'building.'
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📍Loci: All Saints', Brixworth - one of the few surviving C7th buildings in the country.
Here in Brixworth in front of this humble dry stone wall everything is alive: the stone, the moss and even the boundary that it betrays. It's all so bloody beautiful.
⟁ Members' Supplement:Conservation of the safety screen at The Royal Theatre, Northampton
Deeper dives into place and people for Members Only
Comperandum - The Foliate Head
A nod to Banister Fletcher: The Foliate Head
Comperandum - The Pelican Symbol
A nod to Banister Fletcher: The Pelican Symbol
A Year in the life: 4 November 2022
I have a visual in my mind: a soul house is being made by Ancient Egyptian fingers, caked in clay, pinching out a stairway, thumbing in a colonnade, pricking out a window. The loved one is within the cross-hairs of the maker’s mind
⛫ The Cast Room: Saxon Door at Brigstock.
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.
Comperandum - Church Towers
A nod to Banister Fletcher: Church Towers
Be there: St. Andrew Brigstock in glorious VR
The church at St. Andrew has a rare Anglo-Saxon circular turret which is attached to a Saxon tower.