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From Buda towards Pest
A 1959 view from the Vienna gate of Budapest’s Castle district Taken in 1959, a photograph in the Fortepan archive shows two girls standing on the stone bench of the Vienna Gate — rebuilt in 1936 to...
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St Birinus
Staying with friends in Oxford a few weeks ago meant that Sunday Mass was heard at the church of St Birinus in Dorchester-on-Thames. This church was built in 1849 by the local Davey family and...
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The Borough Synagogue
AS THE MOST ANCIENT of boroughs — and right across the bridge from the City of London itself — Southwark is presumed to have had at least a small Jewish community before the Edict of Expulsion in 1290....
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Sighișoara
Photo: Source Placenames can be tricky things in Transylvania. The city of Sighișoara in Romania is known as Segesvár to its Hungarian residents and Schäßburg in German — or even Schäsbrich in the...
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Theodore Roosevelt
The ancient heresy of iconoclasm claimed a new victim this week: The statue of Theodore Roosevelt which graced the Manhattan memorial dedicated to him at the American Museum of Natural History has been...
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An Approach Not Taken
John Russell Pope’s Unexecuted ‘Museum Walk’ While John Russell Pope won the competition to design the New York State Theodore Roosevelt Memorial currently under attack, not every aspect of his design...
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Watts Chapel
IS THIS the most beautiful door in England? The Watts Chapel in the village cemetery of Compton in Surrey is certainly one of the most remarkable buildings in the land. I have to admit it completely...
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Liverpool’s Irvingite Church
The soi-disant “Catholic Apostolic Church” was one of the strangest but most fascinating Protestant sects the Victorian world brought forth. It was entirely novel — perhaps outright bizarre is a better...
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New England Baroque
The sign of a decent place, province, or land is that it can do architecture well in both its highest and lowest forms. Above, the New England baroque of Dunster House, one of the residential colleges...
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A Home for Bard and Ballet
Sir Basil Spence’s unbuilt Notting Hill theatre Sir Basil Spence was just about the last (first? only?) British modernist who was any good. His British Embassy in Rome is hated by some but combines a...
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