The Tanfield Tomb at St. John the Baptist, Burford conceals a remarkable discovery. Beneath the finely dressed effigies lies a hidden skeleton - a memento mori almost unnoticed by visitors. Carved from alabaster… apart from one chilling detail: a single human thigh bone.

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✨ A hidden gem at St. Oswald’s, Ashbourne – an ancient oak door carrying the golden stain of time. Its bird-head hinges and inserted ogee tracery feel mid C14th or earlier – fragments perhaps salvaged from a lost rood screen and folded back into the life of the church.

Sunday read ✨ A visit to Ashbourne A frustrating beginning amongst the effigies A medieval brass plate unlike anything else in England And the moment the past rose up to meet me www.digest.andymarsh...

I just love this carving found at the remarkable St. Oswald's in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. I think that it is a dormouse(?) - the form from the bestiary. It is quite apt for our doom scrolling world because it symbolises a drifting from attentiveness or participation in life.

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📍Loci: St. Cwyfan - This is a place of transition – between land and water, between heaven and earth, between time and tide.

Remarkably, on a wall in St. Oswald’s, Ashbourne, the original brass consecration plate of 1241 survives - in honour of St. Oswald (Oswaldi). It feels like a wormhole - as though the medieval world has briefly surfaced in the present - captured like a fly in amber.

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📍Loci: Hiraeth: A landscape provides a correspondence with the transition of time

St. Oswald's, Widford in Oxfordshire - hovering above the River Windrush. Built upon the site of a Roman villa - some of the mosaic remains beneath the chancel.

Built when Bede was a baby. Light and shade at the Anglo-Saxon church at Escomb in the Wear Valley which was built around 675AD. It is thought to be one of the most complete Anglo-Saxon churches in England.

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Adoration of the Gable - divine portal with a singular dutch gable incorporating brick tumbling and a cartouche dated 1534. Adorned by a wise supplicant of rough knapped flint. Strand Street, Sandwich, Kent.

😯 It's that amazing Bradford bookshop - more 📸 and 📝 in today's Digest: "I think of it all, the building and the bookshop: the glorious all encompassing whole of it. Consonance bleeding into the capitals, hyperbole evaporating from the hammer-beam.." 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

Happy Days #amsketching

Happy Days: Settle today.

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😯 It's that amazing Bradford bookshop - more 📸 and 📝 in today's Digest: "I think of it all, the building and the bookshop: the glorious all encompassing whole of it. Consonance bleeding into the capitals, hyperbole evaporating from the hammer-beam.." 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

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One of the best bookshops I've ever visited at the gradel I listed former Wool Exchange, Bradford - Built in the spirit of the great Flemish cloth halls — architecture not merely as utility, but as something capable of raising the human spirit.

📍Loci: All Saints', Brixworth - one of the few surviving C7th buildings in the country. www.digest.andymarsh...

📍Loci: Helmsley: The Past and the Present in Perfect Harmony

Layers of time in the honeyed oolitic at Tewkesbury Abbey - "It is in that golden stain of time, that we are to look for the real light, and colour, and preciousness of architecture.." John Ruskin

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Serving its purpose for over 600 years and an accidental monument to the carpenter that made it. I think this has to be one of my favourite all time doors: the C14th oak door at Southwell Minster.

I was reminded of the original purpose of the C14th Barker Tower in York when sunlight cast a chain like shadow across its facade. It's original purpose was defensive and it held a chain that stretched across the Ouse. There is a reference in 1380 of a 'Keeper of the Chain'.

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From today's Digest - perfect day - a visit to Frome and Catherine Hill (one of the great streets of England), Bistro Lotte and Sherlock and Pages bookshop. More photos & watercolours 📸 🎨 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

The Orange Jar at Pot Kettle Black in Manchester today. #amsketching

Salts and vinegar. #amsketching

✨ Today's Digest: "This time - in my van, crawling along the M62 in the traffic jam of all traffic jams - I conjure up the restless Romantic Lord Byron and place him in the captain’s seat next to me... and...things take on a different slant."

From today's Digest - perfect day - a visit to Frome and Catherine Hill (one of the great streets of England), Bistro Lotte and Sherlock and Pages bookshop. More photos & watercolours 📸 🎨 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

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📍Loci: Contre-Jour - I love this time of year for photography

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Sunday read: "I lost my dad in 2008 and I think that’s when it all started - I took his spirit out with me on my first forays into deep time - as if he was taking part in an evolving life, a new man emerging from the chrysalis of breakdown." 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

✨ Today's Digest: "This time - in my van, crawling along the M62 in the traffic jam of all traffic jams - I conjure up the restless Romantic Lord Byron and place him in the captain’s seat next to me... and...things take on a different slant."

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📍Loci: Self-Soothing Cartography - I've always been drawn to maps:

Fleeting and luminous Turner skies over Anglesey this week. Looking towards Braich Côch, Rhosneigr.

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