Atlas plate · Halifax, 1832 to 1840
Crypthand
A Yorkshire house, a York church, a communion taken as marriage.
From one shore toward the other. A path of relation, not a lineage.
From
Shibden Hall, Halifax
Between
the space between them
Toward
Holy Trinity, Goodramgate
- From
- Shibden Hall, Halifax
- Toward
- Holy Trinity, Goodramgate, York
- Between
- the short road across Yorkshire
- Distance
- about 60 km
- Beloved
- Ann Walker
- Boundary crossed
- a private alphabet into a public sacrament they treated as marriage
- What stands between them
- code, land, and a church that did not have to understand them in order to hold them