English Buildings

A practised classicism According to the way the history of English church architecture is usually written, there were relatively few ch...

Shires and stones As I've said before on this blog, I have a mental map that charts my comings and goings, and this map is populated ...

Retail therapy The High Street, as every television pundit, every economics correspondent, every social commentator, will tell you, is not...

Fragment Prevented as I am by back pain from sustained sitting at the computer, here's a fragmentary post about a fragment of medie...

Back again More than five and a half years ago (sometimes I find it hard to believe I have been blogging for so long) I wrote a post abou...

Between the fish and the water Because I'm drawn to small buildings that take unconventional forms I've posted about lock-ups –...

Out of place? It has recently been announced that the Royal Mail, the service that delivers letters in the UK, is about to become a priva...