English Buildings

‘The war’ In 1940 long defensive lines were constructed running across southern England to hold up an enemy advance in the event of an in...

Quietly showy This is the west lodge to Dillington House, a mainly Jacobean revival house, now leased by Somerset County Council and run ...

Looking sideways, reaching skywards I mentioned in a recent post the perils of concentrating on ‘what one should be looking at’. My point...

The elephant in the room, or, Odd things in churches (11) Although it’s not at all odd for a church to have a font, this one is odd, as E...

The far pagodas My recent visit to Leicestershire involved the great pleasure of being taken to a couple of churches I’d not seen before....

John Ruskin: The Power of Seeing An exhibition at Two Temple Place, London Curated by Sheffield Museums and the Guild of St George ‘...

The old order This house, which I’ve admired several times when I’ve been driving northwards through the Langtons, a cluster of villages ...