English Buildings

Pointing up, standing out Painswick, one of the most delightful of Gloucestershire’s small towns, is perhaps not as widely appreciated as Co...

Into the wood St Edward’s church stands in the middle of the Cotswold market town of Stow-on-the-Wold. It’s medieval and, even though it’s ...

One image, two lives Although I have a literature degree, I no longer read as much fiction as I once did. There is too much else to read: bo...

Well schooled By far the most outstanding building in Hoarwithy, a village near the River Wye between Ross and Hereford, is the church of St...

Noticed in rural Herefordshire In a casual way, I’ve pointed over the years to the various ways people have repurposed red telephone boxes a...

Ionically… The variations on the classical orders of architecture – Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Composite, Tuscan – are legion. They’ve been t...

  Floods and fragments Ruined churches. When I come across one in the countryside I naturally think their ruination has been caused by rural...