English Buildings

Meetings with remarkable buildings

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Old St Pancras Churchyard, London

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Soane box Round the back of the refurbished and extended St Pancras station lies a secluded garden made up of the Old St Giles' burial g...
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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Calmsden, Gloucestershire

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Six of the best This row of houses in a Cotswold hamlet is, like most traditional buildings on the Cotswolds, built of local oolitic lime...
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Monday, September 14, 2009

Abthorpe, Northamptonshire

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The long view To build is to be optimistic. You are investing time, money, and effort in an unknown future. To build during a time of war...
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Monday, September 7, 2009

Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset

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More light! Here’s the Round Tower lighthouse at Burnham, or what’s left of it, for all that remains is the tower’s truncated stump, attache...
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Saturday, September 5, 2009

Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset

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Attention all shipping I normally leave this kind of thing to Peter Ashley, over at the excellent Unmitigated England , a fine photographe...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

Wixford, Warwickshire

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Inspecting Wixford Following those narrow lanes in villages signposted ‘To the church’ is one of my pastimes, and I’m never quite sure what,...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Clifford Chambers, Warwickshire

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Place in the sun Clifford Manor is at one end of the main street of a village nor far from Stratford-upon-Avon. A timber-framed house of the...
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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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