Elswyth

From Elswyth, a collection tracing how history folds into the everyday.

All Saints Church, Bristol, stands quietly behind the bustle of Corn Street – its carved angels and darkened stone holding centuries of memory. There’s a stillness to places like this, where the sacred and the ordinary coexist, and where each worn threshold seems to breathe with the presence of those who once passed through.

Nestled down a narrow passageway, this entrance hides a former church from the 12th-century and is the site of the first public library in the country.

Words and images © Kate Coldrick – part of the Elswyth collection.