✨ Treasure Hoard: The Medieval Rood Screen Painted In Ox-blood At St. Ellyw's, Llanelieu
There's something special about entering a church. The best places evoke a feeling of transition upon entrance. There's no exception here.
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✨ Treasure Hoard: The Two Faced Janus at St. Anno's Llananno
The Janus springs from pagan symbolism and often symbolises change or the changing of the year.
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 Latch
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.
Be there: Pennant Melangell's 2000 year old trees in glorious VR
There are four trees that are thought to be over 2000 years old in the churchyard at St. Melangell in Pennant Melangell, Wales.
A Year in the Life: 5 January 2022
I decide to chance it. There’s an inch of snow. I take the tripod off the side shelf of the van and fix my camera to it. I open the side door and lose my footing as I step out of the van.
Aerial Video of St. Melangell, Powys, 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 years old. The...
Pennant Melangell-more realm than place...
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 ...
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest 19 August 2022
Welcome! I’m an architectural photographer and writer. On my van-life travels through the British Isles I’m building up a word and photo-hoard of material culture that celebrates the value and distinctiveness of our built heritage and contributes to a sense of place.My van is my time-machine, it