English Buildings

Monsters! I am always on the lookout for monsters in churches. I live in an area – the Cotswolds – where a long tradition of stone carving m...

  Parties and pieties It may come as a surprise to those who view the medieval period as an age of piety, but church records of the 13th to ...

When is a castle not a castle? ...When it’s a toll house. This small building was erected some time in the mid-19th century, probably the 18...

  Now showing… Entranced on previous visits to Devizes by such buildings as the delightful stone-fronted Parnella House and the massive Vict...

Boot’s Corner One result of spending some time thinking and writing about the history of shops is that one becomes aware of the way differen...

The great indoors, 2 The other day I did a Google image search of ’Stourhead’ and eight of the first ten pictures it produced featured the P...

  The great indoors I’ve visited several gardens this summer. Lest anyone think this represents time off from historic architecture, my rece...