English Buildings

  Maritime Lynn, 1 This brick octagonal tower poking up near the bank of the Great Ouse in King’s Lynn was built in 1864 as part of the Pilo...

  Mark-making As I recalled in my previous post , we didn’t manage to get inside the church at Little Comberton the other day. But we could ...

Restoration Reading the entry in the (excellent) Pevsner volume on Worcestershire did not make me especially keen to visit the church at Li...

  Pershore beasts, Pershore plums I’ve noticed the former church of St Andrew near the abbey in Pershore several times, and my photograph of...

  Palatial The other day I found myself in Trowbridge, strolling around the town centre looking at the rich mixture of industrial and domest...

Here comes the sun When you’ve visited as many parish churches as I have, you get used to finding odd things in churchyards, from bee shelte...

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