A Guide to Traditional English Buildings
Traditional buildings, known as vernacular, originally made up the vast majority of the structures that ordinary people lived and worked in.
Traditional buildings, known as vernacular, originally made up the vast majority of the structures that ordinary people lived and worked in.
The Vikings have gone from Victorian villains to 21st-century heroes. But what of the real Vikings and their impact on England?
There are around 190 Buddhist buildings in England, ranging from adapted historic buildings to purpose-built temples and pagodas.
After thousands of homes in Britain were destroyed during the Second World War, temporary houses known as ‘prefabs’ were built.
Alexander Graham Bell developed the world’s first working telephone, receiving a patent on the 7 March 1876.
A gurdwara is a place of assembly and worship for Sikhs, meaning ‘the residence of the Guru’.
Women have always influenced domestic design but it wasn’t until 1898 that the first female architect was admitted to the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Art and antiquity influenced garden design in England in the Georgian era.
Pre-fabricated churches, often called ‘iron churches’, ‘iron chapels’ or ‘tin tabernacles’, were developed in the mid-19th century.
Discover the architectural evolution of the mosque in Britain, from the conversion of houses to contemporary expressions of mosque architecture.