English Buildings

Aide memoire Going through my photographs to pull out some to share, I came across the first digital photograph I took, or at any rate th...

Taxi ! Most of my friends read a lot, and quite a few of them write books too. One of the most frequent mustn’t-grumble-glass-half-full...

Readings and rereadings (2): Richard Mabey, The Unofficial Countryside I’ve spent quite a lot of my life writing about buildings, esp...

Dazzled The huge southern window at Longborough featured in my previous post makes the church’s south transept gloriously light, especiall...

Line and light  A few weeks ago, as the gravity of the coronavirus outbreak seemed to become more grave, but before it had taken hol...

Lionwork In the list of things I’ve meant to post, for ages, but not got round to, the south doorway of Saint Saviour’s church, Dartmouth,...

A kind of looking This is a brick building on the corner of Great Portland Street and New Cavendish Street in central London. I’d passe...