English Buildings

The hard stuff In the list of English building stones most familiar are the sedimentary rocks, such as limestones and sandstones, that are s...

Stone and angels As a follow-up to the jeweller’s shop window in my previous post, here’s another rich bit of symbolic decoration, spotted i...

Bling and beer Grantham when I last passed through (a few years ago on a summer evening), was as closed as it must have been recently: hardl...

  Shapely Approaching the village of Broadway (one of those places periodically named as ‘Britain’s most beautiful village’) on the road fro...

House of holes A while back I wrote a blog post about Herefordshire barns with walls of pierced brickwork to provide ventilation. Imagine m...

Matters of taste Kingsmead Square seemed to be the perfect spot for a socially distanced cup of coffee on a recent visit to Bath. Our seat ...

  Tradition and the individual This chunky tower had me scratching my head when I first saw it standing out across the fields. The tower’s p...