English Buildings

What we think about when we think about ruins The other week I found myself not far from the ruins of White Ladies Priory, a medieval h...

The future, once Here’s another prefab, a different design from the ones in my previous post . It’s one of a kind that I remember seeing ...

Far from ordinary ‘The glory of the ordinary’ was one reader’s comment on this blog and its subject matter, especially the parts of it ...

Hands to the pump, or, Odd things in churches (3) One of the oldest fire engines in Britain is kept in St Giles Church Great Wishford. Th...

Curves Almshouses. There are little rows of them all over England, the result mostly of acts of local charity that have helped house th...

Changes Although I must have walked past this building hundreds of times when I lived in Oxford, I never paid it much attention. In tho...

On their heads be it I did a post long ago about Cheltenham’s caryatids, describing how their elegant presence on the town’s most stri...