English Buildings

Turning point, 1 This is a surprising building for its date, which is 1913: one of the first in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter that’s broadl...

Abbey fragments My awareness of what’s left of Evesham’s once-great abbey was limited in the past to a few fragments. First, the impressive ...

Off piste in Evesham, 1 Sometimes, when I have time on my hands in a familiar place (or a place I think of as familiar) I give myself the si...

  Caring It took me many visits to the Oxfordshire town of Chipping Norton before I came across the former hall of the Oddfellows, a philant...

Endangered species The White Bear in Shipston-on-Stour is one of those old inns with large bay windows and an elliptical arch to one side, l...

For vigour What’s this, in the park of the 18th-century house of Lydiard Tregoze, near Swindon? Not a sheep wash. Certainly not something fo...

Quirky things in quiet corners I begin blogging again with this eye-catching little building, which is in the showpiece village of Broadway....