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Monday, April 28, 2008

Little Washbourne, Gloucestershire

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Hidden among fruit trees in the low-lying country between the Cotswold escarpment and Tewkesbury, Little Washbourne is easy to miss. There’...
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Friday, April 25, 2008

Upton on Severn, Worcestershire

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I’ve always liked Upton on Severn , an inland town with a marine feel to it, thanks to a riverside location that has brought trade and pleas...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Launde Abbey, Leicestershire

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England is a small and tightly packed country, in which unexpected vistas open up and architectural surprises await one around corners, in v...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Hallaton, Leicestershire

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Hallaton is one of those villages whose upland location and rich variety of ironstone buildings help make eastern Leicestershire a little kn...
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Monday, April 14, 2008

Crown Passage, London

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The web site of the most famous London hatters tells us that if we jump into a London cab and ask for the premises of Lock , the driver will...
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Friday, April 11, 2008

Toddington, Gloucestershire

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Here in the Cotswolds, celebrity neighbours are so common they’re usually greeted with a shrug. Half the royal family lives round here, afte...
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Ludlow, Shropshire

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ORDER, ORDER (1) You know the Orders , the modes, as it were, of Classical architecture? Doric, with its fluted columns topped with square...
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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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