Architecture

Jane Geddes investigates the remarkable ironwork of the gates of the tomb of Edward IV, and considers what they can tell us about 15th-century craft and culture.

Jenny West looks at the role of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, founded by William Morris in 1877 to counteract the highly destructive 'restoration' of medieval buildings being practised by many Victorian architects.

Denise Silvester-Carr looks at Art Deco places of interest in Britain.

Rebecca Daniels celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the Victorian Society, which set out in 1958 to save nineteenth-century architectural gems from destruction.

Richard Cavendish visits Traquair House, in Peeblesshire

Renaissance Venetians developed a sophisticated technology for keeping the city’s vital waterways free from silt and in the process, as Joseph Black explains, created a unique landscape that inspired travellers and painters.

Richard Cavendish visits Plas Newydd, the seat of the Marquess of Anglesey.

On the tercentenary of the fire that destroyed it, Simon Thurley describes the significance of the royal Palace of Whitehall to the Tudor and Stuart monarchs who lived there.

St Paul's Cathedral was opened on December 2nd, 1697.

Michael Leech on the efforts to save and excavate the site of the original Globe Theatre in London.

Simon Thurley sniffs the air in William III's Privy Garden at Hampton Court.

Alex Barker discusses St Augustine's Abbey Museum.