English Buildings

  Old, with later facilities Church Lane in Ledbury is one of those streets that features in books with titles like ‘Beautiful Britain’ or ‘...

The journey and the arrival I read somewhere that there’s a ruined church in a field somewhere near the village of Avenbury in Herefordshire...

Belt and braces Looking at the timber-framed late-medieval gatehouse at Lower Brockhampton (see previous post ), I was struck by the number ...

Sweet   This beautiful sign in Ledbury has a special resonance for me, because I had a much-loved relative who was a confectioner. R, a cous...

Not so primitive, 2 Spotted on the same day as the chapel in my previous post, this building is in Walford, between Brampton Bryan and Leint...

Not so primitive, 1 Following on from my previous post, here is another building in Weobley that I missed on my first visit. It’s the Metho...

An educational legacy I’d been to Weobley, one of Herefordshire’s best ‘black and white’ villages, before, but I’d somehow managed to miss t...

Wine, offline On one of my past visits to Leominster I noticed a glazed shop door containing a pane of glass etched with the name of the Leo...

Incidental pleasures, 2: Old news The things we have lost. In the increasing list of things that have vanished or are vanishing as the world...

  Incidental pleasures, 1: Fan mail Are you are a fan of fanlights? I’m sorry, but the pun seems to want to be made.* I have always admired ...

Happy pigs Walking along a street in Hereford, a city I’ve visited a number of times, I saw this tile panel, clearly one produced for a butc...

  Tracing the lines, tracking the curves I rather admired the tracery of this window when I first saw it – the large east window of a rather...

Putting up a front In the same street as my two previous posts is this building, one that has caught my eye before as I’ve driven past. It’s...

TA very much  This is one of a row of four shops that make up the ground floor of a large timber-framed building in Ledbury, not far from th...

A word in your shell-like  Walking along the main street in Ledbury during a past pre-lockdown trip, I chanced upon this small gem. It was a...

Patterned brick, farm style I don’t often post farm buildings on this blog, but I do often peer through farm gates, across yards, and along ...

  Buildings great and small   A while back, well before the curse that is Covid 19 restricted everyone’s movements, my son and his girlfrien...

The edge of the world   On the far western edge of Herefordshire, up in the hills that dominate the border between England and Wales, lie th...

Well schooled By far the most outstanding building in Hoarwithy, a village near the River Wye between Ross and Hereford, is the church of St...

Noticed in rural Herefordshire In a casual way, I’ve pointed over the years to the various ways people have repurposed red telephone boxes a...