English Buildings

A ‘sort of Jacobethan’ This doorway in the middle of Northampton, sandwiched between two shops, is easy to miss. Easy to miss, that is, u...

‘Do not forget me quite, O Severn Meadows’ Newnham on Severn is a small town overlooking the west bank of the Severn, once a port on th...

Home thoughts, and abroad Turning on the radio this morning I heard an announcement – between music by Stravinsky and Rossini and again...

Oasis, or Odd things in churches (9) There are certain churches that I like to return to every now and then. They are mostly small and ...

Local colour On a somewhat unproductive day, I thought I'd go through my photographs of some of the places I've visited recentl...

Garlands In the centre of Malmesbury, very near the medieval abbey, is a late-18th century stone house, a building of three storeys, with...

Bricklayer’s classical After my recent encounters with garagiste ’s corrugated iron and chunky fragments of railwayana , perhaps this ...