English Buildings

On the move (2): The King’s Board My second example* of a building on the move is a small building known as the King’s Board, which now s...

On the move (1): A distant prospect of Carfax Conduit I went to Nuneham Courtenay to look at the church and, as so often happens, saw som...

History and places On Tuesday evening I went to the Victoria and Albert Museum for a dual celebration: to celebrate Historic England’s ca...

Far from sheepish This is one of five elaborate carved piers set at the entrance to a driveway that serves some houses in Cheltenham’s ...

Readings and rereadings (1): Lucia Moholy, A Hundred Years of Photography The chance purchase in a secondhand bookshop recently of thr...

A connoisseur of views On a couple of occasions in the past I’ve explored the grounds of Croome Court in Worcestershire, and have looke...

Sun and shadows Some architecture only looks really good in the sun. That’s true, in my opinion, of this building, the Catholic church...