Editing Architecture of England (section)

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[[Image:Gherkin st helens.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Norman Foster (architect)|Norman Foster]]'s [[30 St Mary Axe|'Gherkin']] (2004) rises above the sixteenth century [[St Andrew Undershaft]] in the [[City of London]]]]

The '''architecture of England''' is the [[architecture]] of the historic [[Kingdom of England]] up to 1707, and of [[England]] since then, but is deemed to include buildings created under English influence or by English architects in other parts of the world, particularly in the [[English overseas possessions]] and the later  [[British Empire]], which developed into the present-day [[Commonwealth of Nations]].

Apart from [[Anglo-Saxon architecture]], the major non-[[vernacular architecture|vernacular]] forms employed in England before 1900 originated elsewhere in [[western Europe]], chiefly in France and Italy, while 20th-century [[Modernist architecture]] derived from both European and [[United States of America|American]] influences. Each of these foreign modes became assimilated within English architectural culture and gave rise to local variation and innovation, producing distinctive national forms. Among the most characteristic styles originating in England are the [[Perpendicular Gothic]] of the late [[Middle Ages]], [[High Victorian Gothic]] and the [[Queen Anne style architecture|Queen Anne style]].<ref name=Davidson-Cragoel>{{Cite book |title=How to read buildings |last=Davidson-Cragoe |first=Carol |publisher=Herbart Press |location=London |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-7136-8672-2}}</ref>