English Buildings

On the edge Last weekend I pulled up and photographed a building I’d been meaning to post for a while, the Mission Room on the edge of the c...

The wisdom of Solomon In the dappled green shade of the churchyard of St Anne’s, Limehouse (see previous post ) is a 9-foot-high stone pyram...

Landmark and sea mark St Anne’s Limehouse, built between 1714 and 1727, is among the remarkable London churches designed by Nicholas Hawksmo...

A coat of arms On several occasions on this blog I’ve noticed premises belonging to W H Smith, and looked at the various telling ways at whi...

Greece in the Midlands This is the most unexpected sight to see on a suburban street in Solihull. Its architect, the young John Soane, soon ...

Still there – just It must have been in the 1970s, when Philip Larkin’s Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse came out, that I fir...

History and harmony If you said the words “romantic moated manor house” a building like Birtsmorton Court might well come to mind. A stru...