English Buildings

Christ's strongman England’s medieval parish churches were originally decorated with wall paintings, collections of images depicting Bib...

Bricklayer’s Gothic Hulcote is the estate village attached to Easton Neston, the great house near Towcester designed by Nicholas Hawksmoo...

House of healing This is one of the many beautiful buildings on the Market Place in Devizes, a town whose architecture – houses, churches,...

Wooden world (2) The west of England (especially the West Midlands, Shropshire, and Cheshire) are full of the glories of English wooden b...

Wooden world (1) A recent visit to the open-air museum at Finsterau in Bavaria reminded me of the importance of wood as a building materi...

Life and soul The 1981 Shell Guide to Buckinghamshire describes Buckingham as ‘A small, quiet, ancient country town of stone and brick build...

Thank you (3) I don’t keep up with the obituaries enough these days, so was saddened recently to read about the death of the art critic John...