English Buildings

Meetings with remarkable buildings

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Great Malvern, Worcestershire

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  Top of the year It’s my habit at this time of year to look back through my posts of the last twelve months and see which have been popular...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Berwick, East Sussex

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A Bloomsbury Nativity I wish my readers a happy Christmas with this unusual church wall painting, the 20th-century Nativity scene in the ch...
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Sunday, December 21, 2025

Needham Market, Suffolk

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  Embarrassment of riches? This is the magnificent railway station building at Needham Market, an impressive Jacobean revival design by Fred...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Bramfield, Suffolk

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Sinuous One of the joys of my travels around England is going somewhere to visit one building and finding some other structure that gives me...
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Friday, December 12, 2025

Framlingham, Suffolk

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  First post I’d been to Framlingham before, but was not switched on enough to look properly at the post boxes. What a sadly missed opportun...
Monday, December 8, 2025

Wickham Market, Suffolk

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Light industry By the River Deben and at the foot of Wickham Market’s High Street lies this cluster of buildings: ‘An attractive group,’ say...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Wickham Market, Suffolk

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Cast-iron evidence The Resident Wise Woman reported that she’d noticed an intriguing pair of iron gateposts a few hundred yards away from wh...
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Philip Wilkinson
I'm the author of The English Buildings Book, Phantom Architecture, Restoration, the book of Adam Hart-Davis's series What the Romans Did For Us, other books about architecture and buildings, and various books on other subjects, including Dorling Kindersley's handbooks on Mythology (written with Neil Philip) and Religions. IN THIS BLOG I share my encounters with some of my favourite English buildings, including many that are little known and that get short shrift in the architectural history books. Look here for accounts of breweries, prefabs, power stations, corrugated-iron barns and the occasional parish church as I share my meetings with England's remarkable buildings. IN THIS COLUMN, JUST BELOW HERE, are some links to a series of short articles that make up a very brief history of English architecture.
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