From Elswyth, my ongoing record of places where light meets memory.
St Paul’s Cathedral Library feels suspended in time – Wren’s ordered shelves and bindings catching the last of the evening glow. The scent of old paper and waxed wood lingers, the air close with centuries of quiet reading. It’s a space where history hums softly between the pages.
Wren’s library, largely unaltered since 1709 and drawing from an archive of books, manuscripts, Bibles, and liturgical texts dating back hundreds of years: the 12th-century St Paul’s Psalter; a Henry VII indenture (1504); William Tyndale’s New Testament (1526) and William Dugdale’s history of St Paul’s (1658).
Words and images © Kate Coldrick – part of the Elswyth collection.
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