Reviews & Articles
Tim reviews regularly for Country Life, his 2026 reviews featuring books about a very Scottish take on Henry VIII; the origins of England as a nation from Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons; great buildings of the world seen through the hands and eyes of a stonemason; a history of urban resilience in tiny gardens; and a study of the gardens created by William Morris at Red House, Kelmscott Manor, Kelmscott House and his Merton Abbey Works. Tim's first review of 2027 will consider Gregory Long’s survey of twenty-three gardens in his Rome - City of Gardens, published by Phaidon.
Tim’s recent Country Life articles include a profile of Martin Jennings, one of our most distinguished sculptors, whose statue of John Betjeman delights rail visitors at St Pancras Station; a miracle of a restoration at Highnam Court in Gloucestershire, with its extraordinary Pulhamite Garden; and an evocation of the most intellectual of this country’s eighteenth-century landscape gardens at Rousham in Oxfordshire.
No more heroes any more
At a time when public statuary is much in the news, Timothy Mowl, considers the work of leading British figurative sculptor, Martin Jennings.
The extraordinary Mr Robins
Timothy Mowl takes a look at the convivial Thomas Robins, whose paintings provide a rare glimpse into the lost Rococo gardens of the mid 18th century.
Church-crawling in Betjeman’s footsteps
A review of Forgotten Churches: Exploring England’s Hidden Treasures by Luke Sherlock
A Garden of the Imagination
Timothy Mowl celebrates what may be the most atmospheric, the most beautiful and the most intellectual garden in the country, Rousham in Oxfordshire
The Restoration of ‘England’s Green and Pleasant Land’
The transformation of Highnam Court, Gloucestershire that includes one of the earliest and loveliest Pulhamite gardens has been miraculous, says Timothy Mowl
The Houses Bought With Black Velvet
A review of The Houses of Guinness by Adrian Tinniswood
The Last Hurrah
A review of The Power and the Glory: The Country House Before the Great War by Adrian Tinniswood