English Buildings

Meetings with remarkable buildings

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Adlestrop, Gloucestershire

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ARCHITEXTS: Things written on buildings (3) Even bus shelters, the humblest of buildings, can have their fascination. At their best, built o...
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Sunday, August 26, 2007

Gloucester Cathedral

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IN THE DETAILS (2) Glouceser Cathedral is one of our most beautiful buildings, rightly famous for its Norman nave and for its outstanding ...
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Corporation Street, Birmingham

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IN THE DETAILS (1) This is an engaging example of the way a detail can reveal the history of a building. The carvings form part of the front...
Friday, August 24, 2007

Edgar Street, Worcester

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The 18th century produced some of England's most delightful small houses – buildings that are compact, light, and well proportioned. Th...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Marlborough House, London

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Most people striding along the Mall towards Buckingham Palace don’t look over the wall about half way up on the right, but they should. Jus...
Sunday, August 19, 2007

West Kirby, Wirral

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ARCHITEXTS: Things written on buildings (2) Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word? He is a brittle crazie glasse: Yet in thy temple t...

Holy Trinity, Teigh, Rutland

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A tiny gem in a Rutland village. In 1782, Robert Sherard, fourth Earl of Harborough, commissioned an architect to rebuild the church at Tei...
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About Me

Philip Wilkinson
I'm the author of The English Buildings Book, Phantom Architecture, Restoration, the book of Adam Hart-Davis's series What the Romans Did For Us, other books about architecture and buildings, and various books on other subjects, including Dorling Kindersley's handbooks on Mythology (written with Neil Philip) and Religions. IN THIS BLOG I share my encounters with some of my favourite English buildings, including many that are little known and that get short shrift in the architectural history books. Look here for accounts of breweries, prefabs, power stations, corrugated-iron barns and the occasional parish church as I share my meetings with England's remarkable buildings. IN THIS COLUMN, JUST BELOW HERE, are some links to a series of short articles that make up a very brief history of English architecture.
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