English Buildings

The building formerly known as… (1) Every so often I find myself in a strange town admiring a bank. Not, I try and convince myself, in a nos...

Photograph courtesy of The Gallery on the Green The Gallery on the Green Red telephone boxes are not as thick on the ground as they once wer...

First and last The background to this little building is outlined on a helpful board nearby. Paddington Street Gardens originated in the 18t...

Birthday time. This blog has been going for two years now, and there seems to be no let up in the steady flow of architectural encounters I ...

The nick of time Some of the greatest pleasures are the unexpected ones. I went to Ruardean in search of a Norman carving above the church d...

Survivor Between the 1850s and 1920s, when there was still a growing demand for church buildings but often a limited budget for construction...

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