Manchester (3)
I spent a second day in Manchester, being shown the city centre by Rachel Haugh, a partner of Simpson Haugh who have been responsible for many of the new developments in Manchester, beginning with the Atlas Bar which opened in 1996 in the Atlas Auto repair yard in Knott Mill and including the four residential…
Provenance in Architecture (3)
I opened my summer edition of King’s Parade, the magazine for people who attended King’s, to find an entirely unexpected recommendation of the excellent so-called Dictionary, really a volume of short essays, on Provenance in Architecture, to which I contributed an entry on ‘Craft’. Summer reading…..
Fromond’s Chantry
My nephew, George, was married in Fromond’s Chantry today: a most beautiful and unspoilt medieval holy place immediately to the south of Winchester College’s Chamber Court. We approached from the south:- The cloister is beautifully well preserved:- The roof is like an upturned boat:- This is the view through to where we were parked, next…
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