English Buildings

More uses for face masks One of my favourite passages in Andrew Ziminski’s excellent book The Stone Mason: A History of Building Britain , i...

Well marketed Looking up the dates of Joseph Chamberlain for a recent post that mentioned Birmingham, I noticed that the great Liberal mayor...

Pigeon post This surprising little building is a pigeon loft. It would not have been so surprising in Bliston in the 1920s when it was built...

Dunshippin It sometimes seems to me that I don’t have to go very far before, as I look at some timber-framed building, someone will come up ...

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...