Forde Abbey in Somerset – My Building for June

Forde Abbey, in Somerset, is the perfect example of a living evolving building. It has seen much change in the last eight hundred years and is still very much alive as a family residence and an example of our national heritage.  There was probably a building here before the Cistercian monks arrived in the twelfth…

Ironbridge in Shropshire – Bridges in Art

Bridges can be found in many works of art such as Canalletto’s wonderful study of Old Walton Bridge in the Dulwich Picture Gallery or Turner’s Maidenhead Bridge which I wrote about here in 2019. But they can also be works of art in their own right. Some of the most beautiful examples of architecture in…