English Buildings

Buildings in a landscape, 2 The many buildings and monuments in the landscape garden at Stowe are beautifully positioned, to catch the eye, ...

Buildings in a landscape, 1 Stowe is one of the biggest and most magnificent of English landscape gardens. It’s a 400-acre masterpiece that ...

  Adoration Holy Trinity church, Long Melford, is one of those vast East Anglian churches of the 15th century for which the term ‘awe-inspir...

Logistics, Regency style Although repainted and sliced off on one side, this old sign is still worth pausing to look at. It begs several qu...

  A bed for Bacon? The day I saw a copy of an old book in a charity shop; it was No Bed for Bacon (1941) by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon, a...

  Gorgeous and stately Looking at this end-on view of the ruin of Moreton Corbet Castle’s south range, you’d not think it was a castle at al...

Meeting place When I was told that one name for this building in Ilminster was the Old Meeting, my first thought was that it was rather show...