English Buildings

Christmas already So it’s Christmas already. Since the last one I’ve written a book, Phantom Architecture (see right-hand column), don...

Hats off, here they come… London’s Shaftesbury Avenue is one of the best known streets in the capital – the part between Piccadilly Cir...

Out of dust… Drifting around the area north of Old Street the other day I was impressed by how spruced up the area was: quite different f...

A well for all seasons? Before leaving Combrook, the parish church of which featured in my previous post , I want to share this less ob...

Ornamental Thoughts of St Augustine, Kilburn , were still in my mind recently when I visited Combrook, a village in Warwickshire, not ...

Pearson’s triumph I was reminded the other day by an article by Gavin Stamp in Apollo that this year marks the 200th anniversary of th...

William Whyte, Unlocking the Church: The lost secrets of Victorian sacred space Published by Oxford University Press Here’s the last o...