English Buildings

Well schooled The industrialist Titus Salt planned his workers’ village with public buildings that were both visually impressive and well de...

Packing a punch Among the merchants’ buildings of Bradford’s Little Germany, the Thornton, Homan warehouse in my previous post stands out a...

Palace of commerce Architecturally one of the most rewarding areas of Bradford is the enclave in the city centre known as ‘Little Germany’. ...

  Street-facing When you turn into the Oxfordshire town of Burford from the A40, you descend the High Street, the first part of which is cal...

  Industrial Gothic Thomas Rickman (1776–1841) is best known today as the author of a book with the lengthy title of An Attempt to Discrimin...

Vernacular, but not as we know it When in 1939 the architect Clough Williams Ellis came to Cornwell in Oxfordshire to work on the manor hous...

Relic of the Arts and Crafts movement St Nicholas’s, Saintbury, is a medieval church sitting high up in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. As we...