English Buildings

Lost among trees on the Gloucestershire side of the River Wye is the tiny ruined church of Lancaut. There’s a farm and a cottage nearby, but...

This building began life as Oozells Street School, one of the board schools designed by J H Chamberlain, architect of Birmingham’s School of...

Schools, colleges, universities – they’re all buildings that ask for the best in design, but so often money, timing, expediency, or politic...

ARCHITEXTS: THINGS WRITTEN ON BUILDINGS (4) Commit no nuisance I first came across a sign bearing the words ‘Commit no nuisance’ on a wall i...

Corrugated iron has so much going for it. It’s easy to produce, light and cheap to transport, strong, and simple to use. Corrugated iron bu...

The lock-up was once a common sight in English towns and villages. The local constable found it useful to have a place where wrongdoers coul...

One of the landmark buildings by Watson Fothergill (see previous blog entry) is the office and printing works of the Nottingham Express. Th...