Augustus Pugin
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin[a] (/ˈpjuːdʒɪn/ PEW-jin; 1 March 1812 – 14 September 1852) was an English architect, designer, artist and critic with French and Swiss origins. He is principally remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival style of architecture. His work culminated in designing the interior of the Palace of Westminster in Westminster, London, and its renowned clock tower, the Elizabeth Tower (formerly St Stephen's Tower), which houses the bell known as Big Ben. Pugin designed many churches in England, and some in Ireland and Australia.[2] He was the son of Auguste Pugin, and the father of Edward Welby Pugin , Cuthbert Welby Pugin, and Peter Paul Pugin, who continued his architectural and interior design firm as Pugin & Pugin.[3]
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Augustus Pugin
14 September 1852(1852-09-14) (aged 40)
Architect
Architecture and interior design in the Gothic style
Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London
Many Victorian churches, Big Ben, interior of the Houses of Parliament[1]
Pugin in Ireland[edit]
Pugin was invited to Ireland by the Redmond family, initially to work in County Wexford. He arrived in Ireland in 1838 at a time of greater religious tolerance, when Catholic churches were permitted to be built. Most of his work in Ireland consisted of religious buildings.[42] Pugin demanded the highest quality of workmanship from his craftsmen, particularly the stonemasons. His subsequent visits to the country were brief and infrequent. He was the main architect of St Aidan's Cathedral for the Diocese of Ferns in Enniscorthy, County Wexford.[43] Pugin was the architect of the Russell Library at St Patrick's College, Maynoooth, although he did not live to see its completion.[44] Pugin provided the initial design of St Mary's Cathedral, Killarney.
Salisbury (1834) – restoration of an existing hall of 1470, largely intact but extended prior to and following the 1834 restoration; now in use as the vestibule to a cinema
John Halle's Hall
(with J.C. Buckler, 1835) – restoration of a 15th-century fortified manor house, now owned by the National Trust
Oxburgh Hall
Derby presbytery (1838) – demolished
(1837) – largely intact; a school
Scarisbrick Hall
Uttoxeter presbytery (1838) – largely intact; in use
Keighley presbytery (1838) – altered; in use
Bishop's House, (1840) – demolished
Birmingham
Warwick Bridge presbytery (1841) – intact with minor alterations; in use
Clergy House, (1841) – largely intact; in use
Nottingham
scheme (1841) – not executed
Garendon Hall
(1841) – intact; now a school
Bilton Grange
Oxenford Grange farm buildings (1841) – intact; private house and farm
Cheadle presbytery (1842) – largely intact; now a private house
(1842) – largely intact; in use
Woolwich presbytery
Brewood presbytery (1842) – largely intact; in use
(1843) – intact; a Catholic youth centre
Alton Castle
– largely intact; used as a theme park
Alton Towers
Oswaldcroft, (1844) – altered; a residential home
Liverpool
Dartington Hall scheme (1845) – unexecuted
Lanteglos-by-Camelford rectory (1846) – much altered; a hotel
(1846) – unaltered; private house
Rampisham rectory
scheme (1846) – unexecuted
Woodchester Park
(1847)
St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Fulham
Fulham presbytery (1847) – intact; in use
(1847) – intact; in use
Leighton Hall, Powys
(1847) – intact now a hotel and restaurant
Banwell Castle
Wilburton Manor, Cambridgeshire (1848) – largely intact
[56]
Stafford Grammar School
Pugin's Hall (1850) – intact, a private house
Church of Assumption of Mary, . 1837–1839. Patronage from the Redmond family
Bree, County Wexford
Summerhill Road, Wexford, County Wexford. Chapel.1838–1841; 6 bay chapel integrated as part of the college; built in Wexford red sandstone. Various Pugin elements including stations of the cross, balcony, rood screen etc. were removed in the renovation of 1950.
St Peter's College
Church of St James's, Ramsgrange, County Wexford. 1838–1843
Church of St Michael the Archangel, , County Wexford. 1839–1842. Cruciform plan in Romanesque style. 9 bay nave. Low square tower over the crossing. The design may have been influenced by Dunbrody Abbey, County Wexford. Built in Ballyscartin limestone with Wicklow granite dressings. Spire not constructed. Patronage of Sir Thomas Esmonde, 9th Baronet and family
Gorey
Loreto Convent, St Michael's Road, Gorey, County Wexford. 1842–1844
Killarney, County Kerry. 1842–1856. Cruciform early English style in limestone. Much modified. 12 bay nave and spire over the crossing completed by others.
St Mary's Cathedral
Church of St Mary's, Tagoat, County Wexford. 1843–1848. Cruciform plan. 5 bay nave and aisles. Contains Pugin brasses, tiles etc. Damaged in fire 1936
Church of St Alphonsus or Blessed Virgin Mary, , County Wexford. 1844–1848. 7 bay church with nave and aisles. Scissors roof truss. Design may be based on St Michael's Church, Longstanton, Cambridgeshire. Interior much modified
Barntown
Houses, , County Cork. For Viscount Midleton. 1845
Midleton
Presentation Monastery, Port Road, Killarney, County Kerry. 1846–1862
Adare, County Limerick. 1846. Alterations including hall ceiling, staircase, gallery etc.
Adare Manor
Mintons
John Dibblee Crace
Brian Andrews, 2001, Creating a Gothic Paradise: Pugin at the Antipodes, Hobart, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Exhibition catalogue.
Charles Locke Eastlake, A History of the Gothic Revival, London, England, Longmans, Green & Company, 1872.
Benjamin Ferrey, 1861, Recollections of A. Welby N. Pugin, and his Father Augustus Pugin, London, England, Edward Stanford.
Michael Fisher, Alexandra Wedgwood, 2002, Pugin-Land: A W N Pugin, Lord Shrewsbury and the Gothic Revival in Staffordshire, Stafford Fisher.
Michael Fisher,Gothic For Ever! Pugin, Lord Shrewsbury, and the Rebuilding of Gothic England, Reading, Spire Books, 2012, 978-1-904965-36-7.
ISBN
Rachel Hasted, 1995, Scarisbrick Hall – A Guide, Social History at Lancashire County Museum Service, 1984.
Rosemary Hill, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin: A Biographical Sketch, in A.W.N. Pugin: Master of Gothic Revival, New Haven, Connecticut and London, England, Yale University Press.
Rosemary Hill, 2007, God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain. Allen Lane. 978-0-7139-9499-5.
ISBN
Pugin, AWN (1920). . Vol. 1 and 2. Cleveland, Ohio: J.H. Jansen. (Published in five volumes between 1821 and 1838).
Gothic Architecture selected from various Ancient Edifices in England
Pugin, AWN (1836). . London, England: Charles Dolman.
Contrasts: Or, A Parallel Between the Noble Edifices of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries and Similar Buildings of the Present Day. Shewing the Present Decay of Taste. Accompanied by Appropriate Text
The Pugin Society
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin 1812–1852, A comprehensive overview of Pugin's life with nearly 400 images
Archived 16 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine
The Pugin Foundation – Australian Works of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
New Advent Catholic encyclopaedia, Pugin entry
Augustus Pugin's Map Room – UK Parliament Living Heritage
at the UK Parliamentary Archives
Papers of AWN Pugin
The Wall Street Journal, 21 March 2009
A Victorian Novel in Stone: the Houses of Parliament tell the story of Britain's past and its peculiar constitution
BBC4, 19 January 2012
Pugin: God's Own Architect
Pugin, Augustus W. N. London, England: H.G. Bohn, 1849. NA997 P8.8o. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Library
Floriated Ornament: A Series of Thirty-One Designs
Archived 8 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Butchoff Antiques, London
Table designed by A.W.N. Pugin for Windsor Castle, 1828.
. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University