English Buildings

Regular readers of this blog will have realized by now that it’s mostly about the outsides of buildings. There’s a reason for this, which is...

It would take a Piranesi to do justice to the shell of London’s Battersea Power Station , vast, roofless, and decaying by the side of Chels...

The Cheltenham Festival of Literature is in full swing at the moment, so I thought it might be interesting, in between listening to what the...

I enjoy it when my explorations of buildings coincide with things I’m doing in other parts of my life. At the moment, I’m writing a book ab...

Chalk, pale and friable, seems an unlikely building material, but it’s the local stone on the Hampshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, and Dorset Do...

On one of our recent visits to a local secondhand bookshop, my wife came across a copy of The Map That Came to Life , a book she read avidly...

Hidden among the green hills and evergreens of rural Herefordshire is All Saints, Brockhampton , the perfect Arts and Crafts church, built i...