English Buildings

  Local industry Many people visit the Cotswolds, and most of them come to see quaint limestone cottages and medieval churches, and to walk ...

Take notice There has been a lot in the news recently about the polluted state of many of Britain’s rivers. The River Wye, for example, is ...

  God’s House Alice de la Pole (1404–75), granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and Countess of Salisbury then Duchess of Suffolk, was ...

Emerging from the mere Almost the first thing you see when entering the church of St Mary at Wissington* is a large wall painting of a drag...

  Magic flutes A few weeks ago I found myself talking to another author about the demise of second hand bookshops (victims of internet sales...

In plain sight Back in 2015 I read Matthew Champion’s fascinating book Medieval Graffiti and was alerted to the interesting array of ‘unoff...

Still going on Writing about Hadleigh’s Coffee Tavern in my previous post brought to mind the host of buildings that owe their existence to ...