English Buildings

Happy pigs Walking along a street in Hereford, a city I’ve visited a number of times, I saw this tile panel, clearly one produced for a butc...

Chapel in a garden Bridport’s Unitarian chapel was built in the 1790s after a group split from an existing independent congregation in 1742...

Hidden treasure A few miles from where I live, hidden in a wood on a slope of the Cotswolds, lie the fragmentary remains of a Roman villa. ...

Light the lights The facade of the Ritz cinema in Burnham-on-Sea looked somewhat the worse for wear when I passed it the other day – but, no...

Genuine imitation This building is nicely sited at one end of Daventry High Street, facing up the street. Its frontage therefore acts as an...

The joys of the wriggly stuff Up there in the list of my obsessions are various things that are not strictly architecture, but which are adj...

Tin tabernacle As regular readers will know, I’m a great fan and regular user of Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England books, to which I ...