English Buildings

It’s always a pleasure to come to St John’s Elkstone, which is one of the most beautiful small churches of the Cotswolds. When you enter the...

Here’s another outstanding combination of signage and architecture that remembers a long-gone industry. Boulting’s made stoves, sanitary goo...

Back in the early 1980s, I used regularly to take the short train ride from New Cross Gate to London Bridge. On this brief inner-city commu...

For decades, London took its wonderful Art Deco factories of the 1920s and 1930s for granted. Then from the 1950s to the 1970s they became ...

The enormous Edwardian Exchange in the centre of Manchester was a trading centre for the agents and salesman of thousands of Lancashire busi...

ARCHITEXTS: THINGS WRITTEN ON BUILDINGS (6) This plaque in the centre of the Herefordshire town of Ross-on-Wye commemorates John Kyrle (1637...

Almost too small to be a building, this structure is simply too special to ignore. It is a shelter containing 33 niches or boles to accommod...