✨ Treasure Hoard: The striking font at St. Peulan's, Llanbeulan, Anglesey
The key work pattern echoes ancient Egypt and has been found in early Peruvian and Aztec cultures.
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✨ Treasure Hoard: The Galilee Chapel, Durham Cathedral
Here, mass begins to dissolve into pattern, light and shadow; Romanesque architecture appears poised on the brink of transformation.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Time Travel Portal at Malmesbury Abbey.
Inside the observer is set up in a theocentric virtual reality depicting Christ in Majesty on the tympanum and the apostles on the side walls.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Romanesque Shrine at St. Melangell, Wales
It holds within its walls something quite unique for these parts - a Romanesque shrine.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The beakheads at St. Mary the Virgin, Iffley
Long snouts curl around the roll mouldings as though the doorway itself were being held in a row of fantastic jaws.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The chancel arch at St. Michael, Upton Cressett
It’s not the biggest chancel arch, but its scale within these small pockets of space makes it seem otherworldly.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 28 August 26
What existed in the landscape as strata and outcrop has been quarried, squared, carved and reassembled into columns and arches. For a moment, here in the nave, the distinction between building and landscape begins to blur.
📍Loci: Time Portal: The Porch at Malmesbury Abbey
The light is storyboarding the building and unravelling the beliefs, hopes and fears of the medieval mind by pricking out the small medallions and their contents within.
📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: Kilpeck in Herefordshire
That such an exotic thing with Angkor Watt curves can be hidden within the ballast of a grim winter's day is quite remarkable.