English Buildings

Buildings in a landscape, 1 Stowe is one of the biggest and most magnificent of English landscape gardens. It’s a 400-acre masterpiece that ...

  Adoration Holy Trinity church, Long Melford, is one of those vast East Anglian churches of the 15th century for which the term ‘awe-inspir...

Logistics, Regency style Although repainted and sliced off on one side, this old sign is still worth pausing to look at. It begs several qu...

  A bed for Bacon? The day I saw a copy of an old book in a charity shop; it was No Bed for Bacon (1941) by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon, a...

  Gorgeous and stately Looking at this end-on view of the ruin of Moreton Corbet Castle’s south range, you’d not think it was a castle at al...

Meeting place When I was told that one name for this building in Ilminster was the Old Meeting, my first thought was that it was rather show...

  Feel free to admire Sometimes the purpose of this blog is just to point out things that I like – and I don’t necessarily have much more to...