English Buildings

Retrospective (3): Feline tales It has been said à propos of social media that, having invented the most sophisticated form of communic...

Weather forecats Plain vanes or pennants often, fish now and then, foxes and hounds, ships, and human figures occasionally, and the ubiqu...

We are amused 'Give us more architectural cats,' requests a friend, in the wake of Shugborough's classical maritime mouser ...

'Get a cat' again In a post a couple of years ago I recalled the lovely story in Patrick Leigh Fermor's Mani: Travels in th...

Animal assortment Hereford's museum is one of many built in the 19th century as the Victorians, rich from the fruits of empire, set a...

‘Get a cat’ Time for a break from the parade of shops currently occupying my mind. So, a little feline diversion... In his book Mani: T...