English Buildings

Lincolnshire Tuscan ‘Blimey,’ I thought. ’Somebody’s been looking at St Paul’s church, Covent Garden.’ The church, if you don’t know it, is ...

A last resort Taking some brisk urban exercise in Chipping Norton, I decided to walk up the gentle rise on the Banbury side of town, aiming...

Temple to temperance The temperance movement of the 19th and 20th centuries found many followers who were so convinced of the evils of alcoh...

  A good front A couple of posts ago, I noticed an early building serving the automotive industry in Clifton, a structure of 1898 that showe...

Life force All Saints church, Clifton, was a Victorian building that was hit by an incendiary bomb in 1940. After World War II, a plan to re...

In the vanguard I like to wander around towns and cities, finding interesting buildings, rather than relying too slavishly on guidebooks, bu...

Gilded glamour The time-honoured advice to ‘look up’ when walking down a street in a town or city seems spot-on for the centre of Newport, S...