https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2022/07/meysey-hampton-gloucestershire.html
English Buildings: Meysey Hampton, Gloucestershire
I am under the weather at the moment, because the 21st-century plague has struck me at last. So here is a reprise of a post from some years ...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2010/07/st-pancras-london.html?showComment=1280054342234
English Buildings: St Pancras, London
Why Sir John hangs on to his hat This blog is now three years old this month, so bear with me while I reflect about how I blog, and why. A r...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2013/11/kings-cross-london.html?showComment=1384730563739
English Buildings: King's Cross, London
Decluttered A friend recently lent me a bound volume of copies of the Illustrated London News from 1852. What had struck my friend about ...
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English Buildings: Chesterfield, Derbyshire
The sunset of an empire My recent trip to Sheffield took me past Chesterfield in Derbyshire, where I stopped for a break and to look at ...
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English Buildings: Oxford
Embroidery in brick Although famous for its stone-built colleges and churches , Oxford in the 19th century became a city of brick. V...
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English Buildings: Deerhurst, Gloucestershire
Lost and found Saxon churches are rare, but in the village of Deerhurst, not far from the River Severn, there are two. This is the smaller, ...
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English Buildings: Wantage, Berkshire*
Look down I'm always telling people to look up, but this time the opposite advice is the order of the day... While photographing some...
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English Buildings: Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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English Buildings: Newnham on Severn, Gloucestershire
The colour of masonry We get used to linking localities with building stone: Cornish granite, East Anglian flint, Derbyshire millstone gr...
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English Buildings: April 2019
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English Buildings: Sherston, Wiltshire
Survivor In the large village of Sherston in Wiltshire, roughly east of Malmesbury, this graceful medieval church stands at one end of...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2010/12/cirencester-gloucestershire.html
English Buildings: Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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English Buildings: Farley, Wiltshire
A twinge of nostalgia Making a trip to Salisbury the other day, I decided to divert and look at the church at Farley, a rather beautifu...
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English Buildings: 2012
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2008/09/ludlow-shropshire.html
English Buildings: Ludlow, Shropshire
The Venetian window, also known as the serliana, after the Italian architect Sebastiano Serlio, was an invention of the Italians that first...
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English Buildings: The kindness of strangers
Birthday time. This blog has been going for two years now, and there seems to be no let up in the steady flow of architectural encounters I ...
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English Buildings: Monnington on Wye, Herefordshire
Hidden England I left the main road behind and turned down one of those narrow, high-hedged Herefordshire lanes. Behind the hedges were c...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2011/09/commercial-road-london.html?showComment=1317438907316
English Buildings: Commercial Road, London
Hybrid eyecatcher Walking around East London in search of buildings taking part in London Open House Weekend, my eye was caught by this vast...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2016/03/dentdale-yorkshire.html
English Buildings: Dentdale, Yorkshire
God is in the textures This week I attended a fascinating day of talks by Suzanne Fagence-Cooper on British neo-Romantic art, particul...
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English Buildings: Wyck Rissington, Gloucestershire
Three ways In the bleak midwinter, with rain on rain in this part of the world, here's a photograph to remind us of last summer's sun...
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English Buildings: The kindness of strangers
Birthday time. This blog has been going for two years now, and there seems to be no let up in the steady flow of architectural encounters I ...
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English Buildings: Rousham, Oxfordshire
A house and its garden I first saw Rousham when I was a teenager, and I can remember being somehow surprised by the house. There seemed...
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English Buildings: Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
Cornish in Oxon I thought I knew the Oxfordshire market town of Chipping Norton well but, as so often with places we visit frequently, th...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2011/03/vauxhall-bridge-road-london.html
English Buildings: Vauxhall Bridge Road, London
Traditional decoration The shop front of the former premises of Frederick E. Gillett in Vauxhall Bridge Road is clad in deep green tiles and...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2010/11/ashby-st-ledgers-northamptonshire.html
English Buildings: Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire
Plotters' place I remember that when I was a child my parents had a book with a picture of this gatehouse in it. The gatehouse was identif...
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English Buildings: Newent, Gloucestershire
Hats on These recent weeks of hot weather have seen me more often than not wearing a hat when out and about. The media have been full of ...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2025/06/
English Buildings: June 2025
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2016/04/ross-on-wye-herefordshire.html
English Buildings: Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire
Good views The Resident Wise Woman and I have a particularly strong affection for Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire. Various things about it...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2010/01/western-avenue-london.html?showComment=1296565962307
English Buildings: Western Avenue, London
Perivalediction (1) When I visit London my route in and out of the capital city takes me past the former Hoover Factory in Perivale, and see...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2012/12/great-west-road-london.html
English Buildings: Great West Road, London
Standing out again By the early-1930s, a new generation of industry was establishing itself around the edges of Britain's towns and citie...
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English Buildings: Paddy
Christmas books: 1 For the next ten days or so, the English Buildings blog becomes a book blog, as I look back at a few of the books I'...
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English Buildings: Bishopsgate Churchyard, London
Desirable alien (1) The Ottoman architects of Turkey, famous the world over for vast domed mosques covered in polychrome tiles, were also...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2023/05/leominster-herefordshire.html
English Buildings: Leominster, Herefordshire
Wine, offline On one of my past visits to Leominster I noticed a glazed shop door containing a pane of glass etched with the name of the Leo...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2011/02/eardisland-herefordshire.html
English Buildings: Eardisland, Herefordshire
Brotherhood of the road AA telephone boxes were scrapped in 2002, but a few still stand as a reminder of the hundreds of black and yellow bo...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2010/10/
English Buildings: October 2010
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English Buildings: Shrewsbury, Shropshire
We want a rockery In the Abbey Gardens by the river in Shrewsbury is an interesting rockery, made up largely of tantalizing fragments of ...
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English Buildings: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
The church of pizza Cheltenham has some fine restaurants, but few have interiors as striking as this one, set in a redundant church of th...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2009/08/shepton-mallet-somerset.html?showComment=1250086836535
English Buildings: Shepton Mallet, Somerset
Amber nectar This 1880s building, trying to look like a French palace with the addition of an Italianate chimney, began life as the Anglo...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2011/06/bewdley-worcestershire.html
English Buildings: Bewdley, Worcestershire
Bewdiful A recent post at The Dabbler dealt with plotlands, a form of development that became popular in the early years of the 20th cen...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2019/08/torbryan-devon.html
English Buildings: Torbryan, Devon
Community of saints There may be a few loyal readers of this blog who remember a post I did back in 2013 about the beautiful Devon churc...
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English Buildings: Brill, Buckinghamshire
Turn, turn, turn On the lumpy common above the village of Brill stands this windmill, apparently built towards the end of the 17th century a...
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English Buildings: Farmington, Gloucestershire
Distinctive I think I have mentioned before in a blog post that I once went to a talk by Sue Clifford, one of the authors of the excellen...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2013/04/bath-somerset.html
English Buildings: Bath, Somerset
Polish I'm not sure if I'm right, but I associate these large brass shop signs particularly with chemists' premises. They were an elegant ...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2015/11/kettering-northamptonshire.html
English Buildings: Kettering, Northamptonshire
Local hero Regular readers will known that I sometimes amuse friends and acquaintances by announcing that I have visited, for pleasure, p...
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English Buildings: January 2011
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2016/08/cheltenham-gloucestershire.html
English Buildings: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
New light on old streets In the late-19th century, many towns were starting to turn on the electricity for the first time. Where gas ligh...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2009/09/old-st-pancras-churchyard-london.html?showComment=1254003983693
English Buildings: Old St Pancras Churchyard, London
Soane box Round the back of the refurbished and extended St Pancras station lies a secluded garden made up of the Old St Giles' burial groun...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2009/09/calmsden-gloucestershire.html
English Buildings: Calmsden, Gloucestershire
Six of the best This row of houses in a Cotswold hamlet is, like most traditional buildings on the Cotswolds, built of local oolitic lime...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2008/10/brockhampton-by-ross-herefordshire.html?showComment=1223197080000
English Buildings: Brockhampton-by-Ross, Herefordshire
Hidden among the green hills and evergreens of rural Herefordshire is All Saints, Brockhampton , the perfect Arts and Crafts church, built i...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2025/02/chiltern-open-air-museum-buckinghamshire_17.html
English Buildings: Chiltern Open Air Museum, Buckinghamshire
Hot hut Here is another look back at a building I saw at the ChiItern Open Air Museum back in last summer. It is, as many of my readers will...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2019/03/whitelackington-somerset.html
English Buildings: Whitelackington, Somerset
Quietly showy This is the west lodge to Dillington House, a mainly Jacobean revival house, now leased by Somerset County Council and run ...
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English Buildings: Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
For all time As Shakespeare is being widely celebrated at the moment, here's a brief Shakespearean interlude. It's a terracotta panel f...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2018/09/nuneham-courtenay-oxfordshire.html
English Buildings: Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire
On the move (1): A distant prospect of Carfax Conduit I went to Nuneham Courtenay to look at the church and, as so often happens, saw som...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2016/07/
English Buildings: July 2016
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2007/12/aynhoe-park-northamptonshire.html
English Buildings: Aynhoe Park, Northamptonshire
Aynhoe Park is a striking country house in Northamptonshire, constructed in golden stone for several generations of the Cartwright family, ...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2021/04/
English Buildings: April 2021
Meetings with remarkable buildings
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English Buildings: The kindness of strangers
Birthday time. This blog has been going for two years now, and there seems to be no let up in the steady flow of architectural encounters I ...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2025/10/callington-cornwall.html?m=1
English Buildings: Callington, Cornwall
Well hidden To a dedicated church-visitor like me, Cornwall is full of evidence of ancient piety. Not only are there many medieval churches,...
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English Buildings: The kindness of strangers
Birthday time. This blog has been going for two years now, and there seems to be no let up in the steady flow of architectural encounters I ...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2016/07/great-brington-northamptonshire.html
English Buildings: Great Brington, Northamptonshire
On high My affection for thatched buildings, for English pubs, and for those three-dimensional pub signs that sometimes mark hostelries...
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English Buildings: December 2007
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English Buildings: St Pancras, London
Why Sir John hangs on to his hat This blog is now three years old this month, so bear with me while I reflect about how I blog, and why. A r...
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English Buildings: Sheffield
Co-op modern This 1936 design features the Midhill Road branch of the Sheffield and Ecclesall Co-operartive Society. Designed by J W Blac...
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English Buildings: Church Stretton, Shropshire
Corrugated irony Regular readers will not be surprised to see me posting a brightly coloured corrugated iron garage. I have a weakness ...
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English Buildings: January 2026
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English Buildings: Great Brington, Northamptonshire
These premises are alarmed! And so, having taken in the dovecote at Harlestone and its adjacent laundry, to nearby Great Brington, to l...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2013/08/lime-regis-dorset.html
English Buildings: Lyme Regis, Dorset
Lyme flavoured Small, colourful wooden buildings sitting on the boundary between land and sea, beach huts have been with us since the e...
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English Buildings: Rodley, Gloucestershire
Survivor Between the 1850s and 1920s, when there was still a growing demand for church buildings but often a limited budget for construction...
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English Buildings: May 2009
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English Buildings: Rodley, Gloucestershire
Survivor Between the 1850s and 1920s, when there was still a growing demand for church buildings but often a limited budget for construction...
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English Buildings: Rodley, Gloucestershire
Survivor Between the 1850s and 1920s, when there was still a growing demand for church buildings but often a limited budget for construction...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2009/07/kindness-of-strangers.html?showComment=1247268720408
English Buildings: The kindness of strangers
Birthday time. This blog has been going for two years now, and there seems to be no let up in the steady flow of architectural encounters I ...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2009/10/stratford-upon-avon-warwickshire.html
English Buildings: Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Keeping up appearances On a recent visit to Stratford I was struck by this substantial town house. The street front is built in a Gothic ...
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English Buildings: Swindon, Wiltshire
Mighty delicate If you think of Swindon as a railway town, which, as the location of the GWR locomotive works it certainly became in the 19...
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English Buildings: Ludlow, Shropshire
The Venetian window, also known as the serliana, after the Italian architect Sebastiano Serlio, was an invention of the Italians that first...
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English Buildings: Rodley, Gloucestershire
Survivor Between the 1850s and 1920s, when there was still a growing demand for church buildings but often a limited budget for construction...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2023/08/northampton_13.html
English Buildings: Northampton
Big in brick, big in beer Walking past the entrance to the Royal and Derngate Theatre in Northampton, I focused rapidly on the large buildin...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2010/11/edge-hill-warwickshire.html
English Buildings: Edge Hill, Warwickshire
Cutting edge Coming across this on an autumn morning on a quiet road in Warwickshire is enough to bring the curious traveller to a halt, and...
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English Buildings: Monnington on Wye, Herefordshire
Through the lychgate One of the rewarding aspects of maintaining a blog like this is the interesting feedback one receives. Among ...
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English Buildings: Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
Cornish in Oxon I thought I knew the Oxfordshire market town of Chipping Norton well but, as so often with places we visit frequently, th...
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English Buildings: Blandford Forum, Dorset
Glorious Bastards In 1731 a fire swept through Blandford Forum in Dorset and destroyed most of the town. The task of rebuilding was given...
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English Buildings: Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset
Attention all shipping I normally leave this kind of thing to Peter Ashley, over at the excellent Unmitigated England , a fine photographe...
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English Buildings: Portland Place, London
Stucco unstuck Back in the shiny 1980s, I remember standing in front of a London building site on which a new office block was going up. ...
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English Buildings: Aldeburgh, Suffolk
Sea views I suppose I'm not the first person to notice that there have evolved, over the years, certain styles of house that seem especial...
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English Buildings: Brill, Buckinghamshire
Turn, turn, turn On the lumpy common above the village of Brill stands this windmill, apparently built towards the end of the 17th century a...
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English Buildings: Elkstone, Gloucestershire
Pigeon post (2) The 12th-century church at Elkstone, high on the Cotswolds between Cheltenham and Cirencester, is one of my favourite par...
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English Buildings: Kidderminster, Worcestershire
Carpet people For around 200 years between the 1770s and the 1970s, carpet-weaving was a major industry in Kidderminster, a trade stimulated...
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English Buildings: Steeplechoice
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English Buildings: Upton on Severn, Worcestershire
Cat on a Doric roof Writing about the Dying Gladiator in Brigg in a recent post has alerted me to three dimensional inn signs, a phenome...
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English Buildings: June 2009
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2019/10/into-past.html
English Buildings: Into the past
Space, time and wallpaper, 1 Stuck at home meeting a deadline, I found myself taking a break by looking through some of the old copies of ...
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English Buildings: ...c 1700-1837
This is the third in a series of pages telling in brief the story of English architecture, illustrated with examples from this blog. The lin...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2010/08/dymchurch-kent.html
English Buildings: Dymchurch, Kent
The lookers and their huts The flat landscape of Romney Marsh is dotted with a number of small buildings that most of us would hardly give a...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2017/06/artillery-row-london.html
English Buildings: Artillery Row, London
Call the nymphs and the fauns from the woods Terracotta panels stretch across English buildings of the late-19th century like a riotous p...
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English Buildings: September 2021
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English Buildings: Monnington on Wye, Herefordshire
Hidden England I left the main road behind and turned down one of those narrow, high-hedged Herefordshire lanes. Behind the hedges were c...
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https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2019/01/ilmington-warwickshire_31.html
English Buildings: Ilmington, Warwickshire
Old school ties On the day of my recent visit to Ilmington the sun was quite strong and while this brought out the wonderful colour of th...
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English Buildings: Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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English Buildings: Fragments, shored
The final review in my Spring collection is of a very different book, an allusive account of ruins and fragments across the whole field o...
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English Buildings: May 2011
Meetings with remarkable buildings
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