English Buildings

  Free style A stroll through the gallery and couture retail area around New Bond Street throws up various architectural delights. Here’s ju...

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

Looking up in Halifax Looking up in the centre of Halifax, you quickly realise that many of the town’s shops were rebuilt, on a grand scale ...

Tin tabernacle As regular readers will know, I’m a great fan and regular user of Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England books, to which I ...

  Palatial The other day I found myself in Trowbridge, strolling around the town centre looking at the rich mixture of industrial and domest...

Michael Hill, John Newman, and Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Dorset Published by Yale University Press Another year, anothe...

The Leaves of Southwell When posting about one of the carvings in the chapter house of Southwell Minster the other week, I inevitably ...

Around this time of year English Buildings becomes a book blog for a week or so, as I cast an eye over some recent books on subjects that ...

Off my piste Catching the eye with white-painted walls and ogee hood moulds picked out in black, this building in Shipston-on-Stour stand...

The next of my handful of new book reviews is of the latest addition to Pevsner’s Buildings of England series. For many, these books are ...

The art of seeing My recent post about the wonderful mosaic floors in the National Gallery prompted a couple of people to say to me th...

Spring has been in the air for a while now, albeit on and off (my Facebook feed seems to alternate between images of bluebells and snow),...

Growing old The Ancient House, Tudor Cottage, The Old House. England is full of houses named for their antiquity. Such names beg the qu...

What shape is a house? I checked the Pevsner Buildings of England volume on Lincolnshire before setting out to find the severe classica...

Architectural notes The volumes in the Buildings of England series, written originally by Nikolaus Pevsner and added to and revised  ...

In the sun My visit to Hook Norton reminded me that it was almost exactly seven years since I went there to look at the brewery . And,...

Five early pieces: 1 To celebrate the fifth birthday of the English Buildings blog, here’s a reprise of the very first post I did in Ju...

  --> A place in the sun Long ago when I was a teenager, I occasionally accompanied a relative of mine on journeys to do wi...

This is the second of two guest posts by Susie Harries, author of the acclaimed new biography, Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life. Having introduce...

This is the first of two guest posts by Susie Harries, author of the recently published Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life , that I’m honoured to p...