English Buildings

Old school ties On the day of my recent visit to Ilmington the sun was quite strong and while this brought out the wonderful colour of th...

Looking ahead I’d not got far up the churchyard path to St Mary’s, Ilmington, before I saw the extraordinary monument near the church’s s...

Set in stone The last of my trio of stone details from Radstock is this sign for the Bell Inn. I’ve posted quite a few inn signs in the p...

More scrolls I want to share one more stone detail from the Somerset town of Radstock, to add to the one in my previous post. It’s the na...

Ups and downs When I looked up Radstock in the Pevsner volume Somerset: North and Bristol , I had to smile. It seems that my perception...

A small triumph of design While I was in Bridgwater a few weeks ago, I spotted this rather good shopfront that I’d never noticed before. ...

An Englishman’s home… A few weeks ago I was in Bridgwater and wondered if Castle House, long hidden under scaffolding and protective sh...