English Buildings

‘Peekaboo, peekaboo, here’s looking at you’ Long ago, in an era shrouded by those notorious meteorological phenomena the mists of time,...

From the sun to the stars My journey to Bath, which I interrupted to visit the Bristol public lavatory in the previous post , encompass...

  A gentlemen’s to relish My route to Bath the other day took me around the edge of Bristol. Emboldened by my recent post of an orna...

Foiled again The quatrefoil. A shape in the form of a simple stylized four-leaf clover, flattened. It’s everywhere: Gothic churches, pu...

Projection It’s an experience that nearly every church crawler must know. You’re standing in a quiet country church on a dull day. Many o...

Best foot forward Last week I gave a talk about the history of shops and shopping, an occasion made especially enjoyable for me because o...

Well spent Small things matter. A gents in a city centre, for example. Designed with some care, as if to suggest pride in a civic ameni...