English Buildings

Meetings with remarkable buildings

Friday, January 28, 2011

Regent's Park, London

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Say it large On my way to visit friends near Mornington Crescent the other day, I decided to take a detour around the edge of Regent’s Park ...
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Friday, January 21, 2011

Ledbury, Herefordshire

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Ballflowers During the 13th century the Early English Gothic architecture described in the previous post became gradually more ornate, its ...
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Monday, January 17, 2011

Uffington, Oxfordshire*

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Pointed architecture Read the architecture textbooks and they will tell you that Gothic architecture is a way of building that developed in ...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

Paddington, London

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Far Away Is Close At Hand In Images Of Elsewhere During the 1970s, when Oxford University was trying to educate me, I would occasionally get...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Burford, Oxfordshire

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Coming home Landmark noun An object or feature of a landscape or town that can easily be seen from a distance, especially one that enables...
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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Petworth, Sussex

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Spoils of war I travel often to Central Europe, where of course I find much, architecturally, to admire. One way in which the Czech Republic...
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Saturday, January 1, 2011

Isle Abbots, Somerset

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God and the details This is another of the wonderful late-medieval Somerset towers, a cousin of the one I recently described at Huish Epi...
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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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