English Buildings

Meetings with remarkable buildings

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Toddington, Gloucestershire

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  Help at hand This AA box has appeared by the roadside a few miles from where I live. They’re a dying breed, these AA boxes, and seeing one...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

Earl's Court, London

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Time machine Why can you never find a policeman when you want one? It was in part to provide a solution to this old question that London’s M...
Sunday, February 8, 2026

Beverley, East Yorkshire

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Independent When my mother was a young girl, she thought all telephone boxes were cream in colour. This is because she spent her first years...
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Monday, February 2, 2026

Needham Market, Suffolk

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House move As I approached Needham Market on my Suffolk trip late last year, this house caught my eye and once I’d got my bearings I went ba...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Wilmcote, Warwickshire

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  Beauty of holiness My interest provoked by hints in Pevsner that the church at Wilmcote might be eccentric or beautiful or possibly both, ...
Saturday, January 24, 2026

Wilmcote, Warwickshire

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  Whose farm is it anyway? Many decades ago, when I was in my early teens and starting to study Shakespeare seriously, my father took me on ...
Monday, January 19, 2026

Great Malvern, Worcestershire

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Health resort To Malvern (again) for coffee, book browsing, exercise, and architectural appreciation. Malvern is one of my favourite nearby ...
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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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