English Buildings

In motion and at rest, 2: Delivering the good news The idea of the Christian minister travelling around and preaching wherever he went is as...

In motion and at rest,1: Immortal Diamond A memory from a visit to the Black Country Living Museum in 2019. Diamond is part of the museum’s...

  Built to last? When I first passed this piece of 1960s concrete sculpture in London’s Rochester Row, I’d no idea who created it. A while l...

  Doomsday, 2 The painting of the Last Judgement in the church of St Thomas, Salisbury, is the largest of medieval ‘doom’ paintings and one ...

Doomsday, 1 Medieval wall paintings are among the most fascinating and tantalizing works of art. The fascination comes often not from the q...

More curves Bear with me, patient reader, as I indulge my interest with yet one more bit of corrugated iron. The key to the material’s succe...

Curvy   Somewhere in rural Worcestershire, on a road I use quite often when there are no restrictions on travel, these pleasant curves pop u...