Photographer Simon Marsden, who was raised as a Roman Catholic, has devoted his life to capturing ancient ruins and landscapes. He has always been fascinated by English churches, and his favourite examples are collected in a book called Memento Mori (English Heritage, £25).
Each atmospheric shot is juxtaposed with a poem or literary extract - most, as might be expected, are about death.
For example, the images of the effigies of William Pople, Earl of Downe, and his wife, with one of their grieving daughters, at All Saints' Church, Wroxton, follow Emily Dickinson's poem Because I Could Not Stop for Death, which continues: "He kindly stopped for me."
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