Most of us have played a variant of the classic Top Trumps game, launched in the 1970s. In the Anglican Cathedrals of Britain version, players ‘trump’ each other with statistics related to height, external length and number of bells. (Wells Cathedral has the heaviest ring of ten bells, Canterbury Cathedral is the oldest cathedral in England and Salisbury Cathedral has the tallest church spire in the UK – just in case you were wondering.) Now a children’s card game might not seem the most obvious catalyst for a photographic project, but the late Peter Marlow (member and two-time president of Magnum Photos) was an original thinker and liked to draw inspiration from unusual sources.
In 2008 Peter was commissioned by Royal Mail to produce six images of cathedrals to be used on a set of commemorative stamps. Once the project was complete, he took his Top Trumps cards (along with a copy of the 1989 book English Cathedrals by Edwin Smith and Olive Cook) and set himself the challenge of photographing all 42 of England’s cathedrals.
‘Peter was fascinated by history, and even at a young age he understood that cathedrals are part of what this country is,’ says Fiona Naylor (Peter’s partner and chair of the Peter Marlow Foundation). ‘It’s not just about religion, it’s also about society, crafts, architecture and the evolution of a building – he was fascinated by all of that.’
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