English Buildings
Meetings with remarkable buildings
Monday, March 25, 2024
Shaldon, Devon
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Foxy Shaldon, a small settlement across the estuary from Teignmouth, was originally busier and much more important than it is now – it was a...
Stroud, Gloucestershire
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Place and taste I was recently reading Adam Nicolson’s Sissinghurst , about the beautiful castle in Kent restored and lived in by his gran...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Coventry, Warwickshire
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Variety It has become almost second nature to me to seek out the atypical buildings in places that I visit – to look for Victorian architect...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Hereford
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Over the moat This is house is another recent discovery for me in a city I thought I knew. It’s called The Fosse, ‘fosse’, meaning ditch, be...
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Hereford
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Aid for the industrious Wondering along an unfamiliar street in Hereford, I came across this arch, looking like a Jacobean relic stranded in...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire
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Local industry Many people visit the Cotswolds, and most of them come to see quaint limestone cottages and medieval churches, and to walk ...
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Ewelme, Oxfordshire
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Take notice There has been a lot in the news recently about the polluted state of many of Britain’s rivers. The River Wye, for example, is ...
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