A Year in the life: 12 July 2022
Emerging from beyond the lime wash is a ghost angel. The faint outline of a face and wings. I’m told that the eye emerged first and then the face and that, as the wash wears away, more might be revealed.
Emerging from beyond the lime wash is a ghost angel. The faint outline of a face and wings. I’m told that the eye emerged first and then the face and that, as the wash wears away, more might be revealed.
And so I find myself, over three days, encapsulated like a fly in amber within the bounds of that gaze.
The chapel was built in the C15th to house the tomb of Richard Beauchamp, the Earl of Warwick.
Andy Marshall's Treasure Hoard Gazetteer.
Like a precious baubled ring, the carving becomes the clawed setting, the movement of light upon it the jewel.
Treasure Hoard Entry, All Saints, Billesley, Warwickshire