English Buildings

Meetings with remarkable buildings

Sunday, February 28, 2021

Badsey, Worcestershire

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’Ovel I’ve always been vaguely aware that the Vale of Evesham had more than its fair share of those marginal buildings that people categori...
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Thursday, February 25, 2021

Swindon, Wiltshire

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Mighty delicate If you think of Swindon as a railway town, which, as the location of the GWR locomotive works it certainly became in the 19...
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Monday, February 22, 2021

Swindon, Wiltshire

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Whatever next? Whatever can that be? This was my first thought on encountering The Platform, now a venue for music and educational work conc...
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Thursday, February 18, 2021

Hailes, Gloucestershire

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Well connected  Hailes is a tiny, remote place I’ve featured here several times before. It gets my attention often because it’s close to whe...
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Monday, February 15, 2021

Ledbury, Herefordshire

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Putting up a front In the same street as my two previous posts is this building, one that has caught my eye before as I’ve driven past. It’s...
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Friday, February 12, 2021

Ledbury, Herefordshire

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TA very much  This is one of a row of four shops that make up the ground floor of a large timber-framed building in Ledbury, not far from th...
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Sunday, February 7, 2021

Ledbury, Herefordshire

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A word in your shell-like  Walking along the main street in Ledbury during a past pre-lockdown trip, I chanced upon this small gem. It was a...
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Philip Wilkinson
I'm the author of The English Buildings Book, Phantom Architecture, Restoration, the book of Adam Hart-Davis's series What the Romans Did For Us, other books about architecture and buildings, and various books on other subjects, including Dorling Kindersley's handbooks on Mythology (written with Neil Philip) and Religions. IN THIS BLOG I share my encounters with some of my favourite English buildings, including many that are little known and that get short shrift in the architectural history books. Look here for accounts of breweries, prefabs, power stations, corrugated-iron barns and the occasional parish church as I share my meetings with England's remarkable buildings. IN THIS COLUMN, JUST BELOW HERE, are some links to a series of short articles that make up a very brief history of English architecture.
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