In 1227, a weekly market was confirmed by Royal Charter at the site of the Butter Cross (recorded in 1339, the present structure said by Pevsner to date from the 17th century), which survives to the present.
1470 by Thomas Tropenell, and is described by Pevsner as being ‘one of the most perfect examples of the late medieval English manor house’.
The parish church dates from 13th century and has a relatively long entry in Pevsner's survey of the county's buildings.
Pevsner describes the Bastards works at Blandford as providing "One of the most satisfying Georgian ensembles anywhere in England".
Pevsner dates the windows in the nave and south chapel to the early 16th century.
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The style was spare,simple and monastic in character with little carving The period is reckoned by Pevsner to run from about 1190 to 1250.
Pevsner found the interior "odd, with early seventeenth century fabric, but later additions and alterations have changed its character".
Pevsner describes the church as "a milestone in the history of church architecture in England".
According to Pevsner, the pulpit bought by the church in 1931 is 18th century Flemish.
Pevsner notes the following buildings: The local church is St Giles - it was designed in 1851 by the amateur, Rev. Perkins.
According to Pevsner, the bridge has "good sturdy balusters", although these have been replaced over the years because of degradation due to pollution.
It was an affluent Victorian and early Edwardian suburb with wide avenues such as Seymour Road, grand villas and Thorn Park referred to in Pevsner.
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Pevsner calls it 'architecturally, the most distinguished of the smaller villages in the North Cotswolds'.
The parish has three round barrows and an unexcavated Iron Age enclosure with a 15' deep ditch, which Pevsner suspects was built in a hurry.
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Pevsner cites the Norman arcades and narrow aisles characteristic of that era and "never enlarged to satisfy later medieval taste."
The court building, designed by C. A. Legerton and opened in 1974, was functional and "of minimal personality and minimal expression of function and purpose", according to Pevsner.
Pevsner doesn't appear to have liked the new house, describing it as "very ugly French Renaissance".
Pevsner was dismissive about the Priory, saying that Brooke Priory was the only monastery in Rutland as "Edith Weston hardly counts as one".
Pevsner considered that the body of the church had been over-restored.
and in 1964 Pevsner described it as "A rough and, at the time of writing, neglected church", with an 11th-century tower and west window, Decorated bell-openings, a Norman font, and a 1636 Paten cover.
The use of the Greek revival style is comparatively rare and Pevsner and Lang point out that the earliest example of it is James "Athenian" Stuart’s Doric temple at Hagley Park.
Plaster decoration, part Art Nouveau, part Pre-Raphaelite style, was lost in the rebuilding; Pevsner's view was that with the decoration "the chapel was one of the outstanding ensembles in England of the style of 1900".
Little Ben was manufactured, according to Pevsner, by Gillett & Johnston of Croydon, and was erected in 1892; removed from the site in 1964, and restored and re-erected in 1981 by Westminster City Council with sponsorship from Elf Aquitaine Ltd "offered as a gesture of Franco-British friendship".
In the Herefordshire volume of The Buildings of England, Pevsner noted the beautiful setting and views from the church but regarded the building as being of little architectural interest following restoration in the 19th-century.
The current building was built between 1912 and 1913, designed by J. S. Gibson, in what Pevsner called an "art nouveau gothic" style, and decorated with medieval-looking gargoyles and other architectural sculptures by Henry Charles Fehr.
Pevsner notes the church as a red-brick octagon with a chancel added in 1886, and a domed interior.
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Pevsner described the 1955 station as "The first of the Eastern Region's good modern stations, the style much lighter in touch than in the stations of the 1960s (cf Broxbourne). Neat brick clerestory-lit booking hall".
The Stations of the Cross are timber reliefs (1990/1) by Stephen Foster, which Pevsner & Williamson considered of high quality.
Pevsner thought highly of this family stating: "The Templers were people of taste, as is clear from the building and their monuments".
The parish church is dedicated to Saint Botolph and dates from the early to mid-13th century; it was described by Pevsner as "memorably intimate".
Described by Pevsner as a "peach" and a "delectable folly", it stands beside the village market place, at the head of a T-junction on Bargate Street, facing onto Stafford Street.
The Perpendicular "tall" south porch is surmounted by crocketed pinnacles on its gable canopy corners, which Pevsner describes as "oversized".
The arches are of Decorated style, and Pevsner suggests that they are part of an earlier build.
The village is centred around St. Martins church (built in about 1300 according to Pevsner) which is to be found on Church Lane in the southern end of the village and was most probably established as a connection point for travellers journeying between Ashby-de-la-Zouch Castle and the areas around Coventry, Warwick and Kenilworth.
Nearby is the Jacobean grandstand called Swarkestone Hall Pavilion and walled area, formerly connected with Harpur Hall, where (it is believed, see Pevsner, loc. cit.), they used to bait bulls.
The village expanded in the mid-19th century with the building of an Anglican church – Holy Trinity – which is mentioned in Pevsner, and an adjoining National School.
A more recent feature for such an ancient church is the Victorian stone pulpit with ogee-panelled sides which, in Pevsner's opinion, fits in perfectly.
There is a Church of England parish church, St Mary's, which according to Pevsner dating from c.13th century and with a north aisle and arcade of 1872 by Edmund Francis Law).
The church at Whitcombe Church, now redundant, is in a "modest but perfect location" according to Pevsner.
Pevsner said of the 12th Century Church that the north porch was 'one of the most swagger in Suffolk'.