A major new survey of architecture in Britain and Ireland from 1530 to 1830 will be published this autumn. Its author, Steven Brindle, teases out the qualities of one of its most elusive central themes.
An English character pervades our historic buildings, in town and country. This statement can readily be proved by asking any educated British audience — of Country Life readers, as it might be — to distinguish between photographs of an English village, castle,…
