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click photo to enlarge Castor is a village that has moved about a bit. Not in the physical sense, but rather in terms of the local author...

click photo to enlarge Too many writers and architectural historians damn Norman (Romanesque) architecture with faint praise. Because the...

click photo to enlarge In 2010 I posted a piece called "Enthusiast photographers and camera angst" wherein I said that most DS...

click photo to enlarge I've heard it argued that Gothic architecture i.e. the medieval style that features pointed arches, was the fi...

click photo to enlarge It's not easy to determine which are the oldest houses in Britain. We can reasonably discount the caves that w...

click photo to enlarge The inability of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon to produce a male heir was a trigger that set in motion the En...

click photo to enlarge "My greatest fear: repetition" Max Frisch (1911-1991), Swiss author and critic I find it hard to unde...

click photo to enlarge Can there be anyone who, having walked below the crossing tower of Ely cathedral, hasn't stopped and gazed up ...

click photo to enlarge Most of the interior wall surfaces of England's medieval churches and cathedrals are unadorned stone. Where th...

click photo to enlarge The village of Kempley in Gloucestershire is fortunate to have two wonderful churches. One dates from 1902-3 and ...

click photo to enlarge The other day, in connection with the Anglo-Saxon (Romanesque) church at Barton upon Humber, Lincolnshire, I was ...

click photo to enlarge Our great churches offer much to delight the eye and mind, more than can be taken in during a single visit, and o...

click photo to enlarge Today's photograph is another of my recently scanned slides from 1986. It shows the remarkable south door of ...

click photo to enlarge There's an old saying that "what we learn from history is that we don't learn from history." It...

click photo to enlarge The exterior of Ely Cathedral looks its best, in my opinion, from a distance of several miles as it rises above t...

click photo to enlarge When I was a teenager I remember reading a book by the Dutch-American professor of history at Cornell University, Hen...

click photo to enlarge There are those among my family, friends and acquaintances who think that I spend a lot of time on photography. C...

click photo to enlarge There have been only three*( see below) completely new Anglican Cathedrals built in England since the Reformation o...

click photos to enlarge In a recent post I was a little less than complimentary about the exterior of Norwich Cathedral. Today's post ...

click photo to enlarge Architectural historians the length and breadth of Britain know of Greensted church in Essex. I've been familiar ...