"To paraphrase John Lennon, Westminster Cathedral isn't the most famous church in the world, it's not even the most famous church in Westminster. While millions of tourists a year flood through the ticket office of Westminster Abbey, keying numbers in the inexplicably sicky audio guides and gawping through the railings at ancient Kings and Queens, only five minutes down the road stands a neighbour who is seldom included on a pre-planned itinerary. Westminster Cathedral is halfway between Victoria Station and Parliament Square but it might as well be halfway between Venice and Istanbul."
Tag: Building
Haigh’s Guide to Baroque Architecture in Britain: Part 3.
The final part of the guide, featuring St Paul's Cathedral and Blenheim Palace.
Haigh’s Guide to Baroque Architecture in Britain: Part 2.
Part 2 of the guide, featuring Greenwich and works of the English baroque in Oxford
The Case Against Façadism
The latest development in the ongoing campaign to squeeze every last penny out of each square foot of our urban space, Façadism is on the rise across London. This now highly fashionable practice is doing nothing more than placing a mask of faux respectability over the continued butchering of our city’s architectural heritage.


