English Buildings

Bataland Deep in eastern Moravia, in the Czech Republic not far from the border with Slovakia, lies Zlín, the factory town of the Bat...

Setting down a marker Gate piers. They're one of the primary architectural signals of large buildings. You see them and straight away...

The archetypal meeting house From their origins in the 1640s until the late 1680s, the Quakers were persecuted in England. Many Quakers...

Friends' houses Walls built of small bricks, laid in Flemish bond and with a lovely uneven colour palette ranging from sandy red to...

Postcards from England: 5. Prospects for Whitby It's a long time since I've been to Whitby, and climbed dozens of steps to the ...

A note from underground On the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, a brief tribute to one of its architects. In 1903 Leslie ...

Letter set (4) To complete my short series about letters on buildings, here's an example of a fourth kind of lettering, the sort kn...