English Buildings

  A kind of cocktail Walking along Weymouth Street the other week, a number of houses caught my eye, not least this one which in spite of vi...

On celebrating your heritage I live in Gloucestershire, so Gloucester is my county town and one of the two big towns near me. Whenever I go ...

  Beasts, chevrons, and scrolls I apologise to any readers who have been frustrated at my previous post, which illustrates a notable Norman ...

Green thoughts Churchyards. I’ve been in a lot of them in my time and mostly I can concur with the narrator of Samuel Beckett’s First Love ,...

Underneath the arches I break off my succession of posts about buildings in London and Liverpool to report that I found myself in Amersham t...

  A moment of confusion Standing in St James’s church, Somerton* recently, I was amazed, Why was this not more famous: a 14th-century reredo...

  Liverpudlian Goth-ish St John’s Lane in central Liverpool is dominated by St John’s Gardens and one end of St George’s Hall on one side; ...