A place to see the little things between the monuments and tombs. As in the chapel of St Gabriel, a pencil.
Here they are, behind the obvious. Next to the chapter house, a cupboard with a bowl, four toilet rolls.
How small things quietly wait, make us forgivable. Inside the vestry, just inside the door, an iron.
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