If you’re ever on the M25 in the South of the UK, and you have 30 minutes to spare for a cup of tea, I highly recommend a stop off at the Magna Carter and the grounds surrounding it – including the National Trust tea-shoppe. For it is just a few hundred footsteps from there, that you will find some extraordinary British landmarks. One of them is an eye-popping structure called Writ in Water which is cleverly designed to display the words of this historic charter backwards, using the water’s reflection. Breathtaking.
Here are a couple of pics I took inside the structure.
It’s designed not only to let in the light, which will reflect the words onto the sides of the pool of water but the curves also feel like a circular scroll in which to hold words that ought to repeat through eternity.
There is also a strange feeling of not knowing what or who you will meet coming around the corner of this imposing stone structure! Which certainly adds to the excitement of the piece! And when you’re done having fun, you can sit outside on a warm day and enjoy a generous slab of shortbread and some really good coffee at the aforementioned National Trust tea-shoppe!
Here’s to curious sights and experiences in unexpected places!
© Suzy Rowland