English Buildings

Meetings with remarkable buildings

Sunday, September 7, 2025

Dunster, Somerset

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  A web of wood Having posted about Dunster’s charming and well preserved dovecote the other week, I thought it might be interesting to tak...
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Fretherne, Gloucestershire

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A class act Visiting Arlingham the other say (see my recent post here ) reminded me of an occasion maybe eight or ten years ago when the Res...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Arlingham, Gloucestershire

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Round-up I belong to a local Facebook group here in our corner of the Cotswolds. People post news, coming events, and other items of interes...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

Arlingham, Gloucestershire

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All about line I’d planned to go over to Frampton-on-Severn, stroll along the enormous village green, and look at some favourite buildings. ...
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Sunday, August 17, 2025

Chastleton, Oxfordshire

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  A spirit of place and time I have visited Chastleton House before, but the other week the Resident Wise Woman and I decided that it was ti...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Dunster, Somerset

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Inside view Anyone who looks at the different types of building that I write about on the English Buildings blog would be forgiven for think...
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Friday, August 8, 2025

Lullington, East Sussex

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Where was I? Year: 1968. Scene: A red Humber Sceptre driving along a lane in remote Somerset, my father at the wheel, me in the passenger se...
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Philip Wilkinson
I'm the author of The English Buildings Book, Phantom Architecture, Restoration, the book of Adam Hart-Davis's series What the Romans Did For Us, other books about architecture and buildings, and various books on other subjects, including Dorling Kindersley's handbooks on Mythology (written with Neil Philip) and Religions. IN THIS BLOG I share my encounters with some of my favourite English buildings, including many that are little known and that get short shrift in the architectural history books. Look here for accounts of breweries, prefabs, power stations, corrugated-iron barns and the occasional parish church as I share my meetings with England's remarkable buildings. IN THIS COLUMN, JUST BELOW HERE, are some links to a series of short articles that make up a very brief history of English architecture.
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