English Buildings

Clean-up time Beside the street opposite Chipping Campden’s 17th-century almshouses is this unusual feature. It now looks like a stretch of ...

The gift of water As the rain drizzles down in the Cotswolds, we’re apt to take for granted the regular clean water supply that we expect...

Ancient styles Sometimes a few notes, or a particular quality of sound, can do it: a memory is summoned and I am somewhere else entire...

Architecturally incorrect It’s a happy coincidence that I visited Sunningwell, in the previous post , within a few days of going to Chipping...

Uncommon markets (3) In contrast to the grand town hall of the previous post, here is a market hall, plain and simple, in the middle of the ...