English Buildings

Britton's Britain John Britton’s The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain , a work of the early-19th century, was, according to t...

Wren the Goth Sir Christopher Wren is probably Britain’s most famous architect. Most people know him as the designer of St Paul’s Cathedral ...

Windows on the world Every time I go to Bath I marvel at its Georgian architecture. The way both individual buildings and the larger plan...

I’ve refreshed my ‘Ten of the Best’ feature, with ten new links in the right-hand column to some favourite posts from the English Buildings ...

On the path through life All Saints’ church, Billelsey is between the towns of Alcester and Stratford upon Avon. It’s a tiny church with ...

Odd things in churches Doing the previous post about the lookers’ huts of Romney Marsh reminded me of my last trip to the Marsh a couple of...

The lookers and their huts The flat landscape of Romney Marsh is dotted with a number of small buildings that most of us would hardly give a...