Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 27 Dec 2024
The church lies deep within the bucolic landscape of a glacial valley, rising from the flat valley floor like an erratic, shaped by history, circumstance, and time.
The church lies deep within the bucolic landscape of a glacial valley, rising from the flat valley floor like an erratic, shaped by history, circumstance, and time.
Travelling along the lane to St. Melangells is an act of filtration, a redaction of modernity. The pressing matters of the day are pared down with each passing turn.
During my visit, I enter the church via the porch which has an angel topped gate that houses a lock and latch that is a shrine in itself - a secular shrine to its maker.
There are four trees that are thought to be over 2000 years old in the churchyard at St. Melangell in Pennant Melangell, Wales.
MEMBERS ONLY This really is a magical place - more realm, than place. Because of its location - at the head of a glacial valley, surrounded by hills full of pine and conifer. Check out the yew trees on the boundary (which is Bronze Age) - they are over 2000...
A bit of respite at Pennant Melangell in the Tanat Valley in Wales
This really is a magical place - more realm, than place. Because of its location - at the head of a glacial valley, surrounded by hills full of pine and conifer ...