The gazetteer is my personal collection of material treasures. It's a growing map of wonders that I've spent over forty years documenting.
The gazetteer is my personal collection of material treasures. It's a growing map of wonders that I've spent over forty years documenting. The treasures that I list here are not of any monetary value, but far more valuable.
"I share them with the gratitude that, through a strange quirk of career, I’ve had a certain freedom to be able to seek them out and photograph them."
An enigmatic face, thought to be a wolf, with lines that vividly depict the senses.
I’m mesmerised by it. The carving is a breathtakingly beautiful, organic embodiment of a whale.
At Winchester Cathedral, along the top of the screens to the presbytery are six caskets. Each one has been inscribed with lettering.
I’m told that the bricks (amongst other later demolished sites) were deposited here after the blitz of Liverpool - swept up from the bomb-pitted terraced houses and trucked onto the beach.
No this really is special - fresh fish from the morning's catch, fresh air and a warm welcome.
The C12th porch at Malmesbury Abbey is like a time portal. The exterior orders depict scenes from creation to ascension including David and Goliath, Samson and the Lion and Noah and the Ark.
Hexham Abbey: this tomb to a Roman standard bearer is around 2000 years old