Building Types

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Highgate, St Augustine. The architect of this N London church was J D Sedding, work started in 1887 but was not completed for many years.

The architect Ernest Shearman designed Saint Silas the Martyr Church in the inner London area of Kentish Town. It serves an impoverished area of London and promotes the Anglo Cathlic and Tractarian side of the Church of England.

Phil Draper's Church Architecture Site

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - London Docks, St Peter. Many photos and details on this comprehensive site of St Peter London Docks, a church built in one of the poorest districts in London, and consecrated in 1866.

A celebration of St Erkenwald's Church, Southend-on-Sea - demolished 1995.

Collection of photographic images of the North of England, Lake District and Scotland. A wide selection from castles, historic sites, landscape and wildlife. Also included is a section about how well you know Newcastle, this features details of buildings or statues. Click on the detail to reveal the building.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - The Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow. Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1904 in his distinctive Art Nouveau style, it has been recreated and serves today as a cafe specialising in teas.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois. Official site of the remarkable cubist concrete church designed by Frank Lloyd Wright reproduces the original 1906 brochure with plans, drawings and the design philosophy for the building.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Kings Weston House. Edward Southwell, MP and Secretary for State for Ireland, had this fine house built c.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Castle Howard. One of England's grandest Baroque mansions, designed for Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, by John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Grimsthorpe Castle and Gardens. The official site for this stately home in Lincolnshire, remodelled in 1715 to the design of Sir John Vanbrugh.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Blenheim Palace. This baroque masterpiece - a World Heritage site - was built (1705-22) for the 1st Duke of Marlborough to designs by John Vanbrugh.