English Buildings

Stand-out structure Not far from the Albert Dock, whose gatemen’s shelters were featured in my previous post , stands Wapping Dock, and alon...

Small structure, giant stones On a visit to Liverpool recently, I was very taken with the docks, the Royal Albert Dock in particular. Its im...

Lost industry In eastern Cornwall the other week, and driving towards the Devon border and the house of friends we were to visit, it occurre...

An ancient place Cotehele is one of the most romantically beautiful houses in the care of the National Trust.* It was built by three genera...

Built to last I didn’t want to leave Dupath well, the subject of my previous post , before commenting on the stone it’s built of – large blo...

Well hidden To a dedicated church-visitor like me, Cornwall is full of evidence of ancient piety. Not only are there many medieval churches,...

Suit you, 1 My visit to Hull back in July turned out to be rather provisional. Faced with just a day in a very large city, I concentrated on...

Music for a long while On several occasions when exploring English buildings I’ve come across ancient carvings of musicians. Blog posts from...

The hard stuff In the list of English building stones most familiar are the sedimentary rocks, such as limestones and sandstones, that are s...

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

Architectural pyrotechnics Nowadays, fire stations are often seen as utilitarian buildings and most of us don’t give them a second glance. B...

Colour in buildings Working on the book of the series Turn Back Time: The High Street last year focused my mind all too clearly on the pligh...

Desirable alien (2) In contrast to the British ‘alien’ of a few posts back , my other urban invader really is from overseas. It began life, ...