English Buildings

  One foot or two? When you hear that a church is furnished with medieval benches, you wonder what to expect. They were often an extensive c...

Warm and cool, rough and smooth There’s something very satisfying about the warm colour of Georgian brickwork bathed in sunlight, and if the...

  Help at hand This AA box has appeared by the roadside a few miles from where I live. They’re a dying breed, these AA boxes, and seeing one...

Time machine Why can you never find a policeman when you want one? It was in part to provide a solution to this old question that London’s M...

Independent When my mother was a young girl, she thought all telephone boxes were cream in colour. This is because she spent her first years...

House move As I approached Needham Market on my Suffolk trip late last year, this house caught my eye and once I’d got my bearings I went ba...

  Beauty of holiness My interest provoked by hints in Pevsner that the church at Wilmcote might be eccentric or beautiful or possibly both, ...