English Buildings

Meetings with remarkable buildings

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Hereford

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Late-flowering modernism I’ve been passing by this building on Hereford’s inner ring road for years. I remember being vaguely aware of...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Faringdon, Berkshire*

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Moving on So solid, buildings do not generally move. Permanence is one of the conditions of architecture, and when we hear of a buildi...
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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Bristol

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Sailing to Byzantium Bristol, an important port for centuries, enjoyed a great expansion in the 19th century, with the arrival of the ...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Leominster, Herefordshire

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Mystery I took these pictures a couple of years ago in one of the main streets in the town of Leominster, Herefordshire. I was inspi...
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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Sherston, Wiltshire

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Survivor In the large village of Sherston in Wiltshire, roughly east of Malmesbury, this graceful medieval church stands at one end of...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Sezincote, Gloucestershire

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Nabobbery Walkers of the Heart of England Way going south through Gloucestershire leave Bourton on the Hill confident that their path i...
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Monday, August 8, 2011

The London Nobody Knows

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BBC Radio 4 broadcast an interesting short programme tonight by Dan Cruickshank, in which the writer and broadcaster celebrates the work of ...
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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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