English Buildings

Survival and change The parish church in the middle of Deddington, built of toffee-coloured stone like much of the town, is a mixture of ...

Flats and curves In 1934 the Lawn Road flats, designed by Wells Coates for the Isokon Company, were completed. They were the fruit of t...

A trough, but for what, or whom? or, Odd things in churches (6) In the church porch at Ripple stands this curious shallow stone trough. W...

Beyond the pissoir Prompted by my recent posts of an iron gents in Bath and a splendid pissoir in Bristol, a commenter mentioned the ha...

More light In Wells, turning my back, for a moment, on the magnificent west front of the Cathedral, and remembering Jonathan Meades’s ch...

Spooks, revisited: A question of attribution A brief addendum to an earlier post. Regular readers might be interested to know that th...

Provincial, rustic, folkish, naïve – and fun A friend remarked that the painted boss in my previous post would look at home on the prow...