Inside the Archibald Fountain in Hyde Park, Sydney: François-Léon Sicard’s 1932 bronze Apollo, its tiered basins, mythic groups, and Parisian civic ambition.
Kheer Bhawani Temple: A Spring That Changes Colour
A Nordic architect reads Kheer Bhawani Temple near Srinagar — a shrine built over a sacred spring that changes colour, and the kheer offered to its goddess.
All Saints’ Church, Burton Dassett: A Hillside Medieval Fabric
All Saints’ Church, Burton Dassett is a Grade I listed Warwickshire church of 12th-century origin, rising up its hillside with a holy well close by.
St John the Baptist’s Church, Hope Bagot: A Norman Survival
St John the Baptist’s Church, Hope Bagot is a Grade I listed, largely Norman Shropshire church, with an ancient yew and a holy well venerated for centuries.
Budhanilkantha: The Sleeping Stone of the Kathmandu Valley
A Scandinavian architect reads Budhanilkantha, Nepal — the sacred temple of a sleeping god, the blue-throated myth of Shiva, and stone at rest in water.
Chalice Well: The Red Spring of Glastonbury, England
Chalice Well, the Red Spring near Glastonbury Tor, with its Vesica Piscis wellhead, terraced gardens, iron-red waters, and Holy Grail and Arthurian legend.