
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 5 September 2025
A little church in Warwickshire - a place beyond the ratings.
A little church in Warwickshire - a place beyond the ratings.
A short video showing a walk into All Saint's, Billesley.
All Saint's in glorioius VR
I walk down through the nave, drawn towards a doorway that cradles a rarefied luminescence — a mingling of dappled colour from stained glass, the glint of refracted light on metal, and a hint of the golden radiance that spring has blessed us with this year.
And there are rumours that the synchronicity that sprang from the Roman temple inspired the medieval scholar Alcuin to build the Alma Sophia (Holy Wisdom) here.
These conservators, these minimal interventionists, aren’t simply curators of the paint pot and infill, but also guardians of a rich cultural tapestry that teaches us what it means to be human.
For a moment, I disappear: Andy Marshall the frustrated and entitled photographer, the writer, the anxiety ridden camper-van-camino chap - completely disappears.
Legend has it that they are a king and his courtiers petrified by a witch. The story was first mentioned in William Camden's Britannia in 1586.
"I find it hard to think how anything like this can survive the perils of our times."
✨ Wondering why I ask for support?
An Anxiety of Memberships