Featured Image: Serliana or Venetian Window at Croome, Worcestershire Few architectural forms have proved so durable, so geographically wide-ranging, or so consistently associated with intellectual aspiration and refined taste as the Venetian window. Composed of a...
The parish church of St Peter & St Paul at Muchelney in the Somerset levels lies adjacent to the remains of Muchelney Abbey. Whilst there was an earlier church, the one standing today is mainly a late 15th-century[i] construction of Blue Lias and Ham Hill stone....
Introduction There are houses that preserve a moment, and then there are houses that embody one. Wightwick Manor, the Victorian house near Wolverhampton now in the care of the National Trust, belongs firmly to the second category. Built in two phases between 1887 and...
If you visit Barcelona and only see one building, it will almost certainly be the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia.[1] Rising improbably from the Eixample grid, its spires seem to belong to a world between cathedral and coral reef. But for all its fantastical beauty,...
Few buildings in England can claim to have fundamentally altered the course of the nation’s architectural history. Chiswick House, the compact neo-Palladian villa in west London designed and built by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, between 1726 and 1729, is one...
