English Buildings

Patterned brick, farm style I don’t often post farm buildings on this blog, but I do often peer through farm gates, across yards, and along ...

‘Not in stone temples made with hands’   At this time of year, as we approach Christmas and wonder this of all years how we cope with it, th...

Acts of remembrance   Listening to an excellent talk on Arts and Crafts war memorials given by Kirsty Hartsiotis last month, I was reminded ...

Crossing place  Bredon Hill, made famous by a poem in A. E. Housman’s collection A Shropshire Lad, is actually in the poet’s native Worcest...

  Continuity or change? The small riverside town of Upton-on-Severn has one of those traditional high streets that has evolved over the year...

  A folly, but not entirely Earl Bathurst, 18th-century lord of Cirencester and shape of its enormous park, clearly responded to the archite...

Framed by trees  Cirencester Park is one of the most remarkable ornamental landscapes in England. It’s one of the few surviving large-scale ...