Nottingham alabaster: objects of strangeness, mystery and devotion

How the English Reformation tried to obliterate a unique medieval artform

Adoration of the Magi; The Head of St John the Baptist; The Resurrection. (NB These are all cropped to fit Substack's Gallery specification!)

Rudyard Kipling’s story ‘Dymchurch Flit’ is set in the liminal, tidal nether-land of the Romney Marshes in Kent. At its heart is a strange, allusive tale-within-a-tale about the Reformation and how it drove the supernatural beings of English folklore out of the land for good. “They packed into the Marsh from all parts,” a character reports, “and they s…