Vintage View: Tarquin Blake's Abandoned Churches of Ireland

Kya deLongchamps speaks to photographer and passionate historian Tarquin Blake, about his new book Abandoned Churches of Ireland.  

The ruin of a church is a quiet moment in the landscape. Even when the roof is intact, once de-consecrated, these buildings fall into a certain kind of poignant silence.

An occasional visitor will fight forward through the bramble-chocked graveyard with a wreath, but otherwise they remain largely undisturbed — towers and spires thrust in mute faithfulness to Heaven.