Sep 1, 2024
Inside the church of St John, at Inglesham - a profoundly beautiful and sacred space, even for a non-believer such as myself. The thirteenth-century church stands on a gentle rise of land above waterside meadows near the Thames, and William Morris - who lived at nearby Kelmscott - oversaw its restoration in the nineteenth century, ensuring it kept its original medieval identity.
An amazing series of paintings, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century, cover the walls often with one painted over another, in places seven layers thick.
There is something about that seven layers thick that is very resonant.
