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Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
Standard Name: Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ruby M. Ayres | Her father, Charles Pryor Ayres, was a highly successful architect who had studied with Edward Welby Pugin
(a son of the more famous Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
). |
| Occupation | Anne Mozley | Besides domestic work (such as housekeeping for her brother Thomas), AM
was a pioneer in designing and embroidering church vestments from medieval patterns found in the work of Augustus Pugin
, long before this became... |
Timeline
1 March 1812
Architect and writer Augustus Pugin
was born at 34 Store Street, near Bedford Square, London.
1834
Architect Augustus Pugin
converted to Roman Catholicism; he designed many of the newly-built Catholic churches in the Gothic style.
1836
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
published 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.
1841-1863
The Houses of Parliament were rebuilt in the Gothic style by Charles Barry
and Augustus Pugin
, following their destruction by fire in October 1834.
14 September 1852
Augustus Pugin
, architect and writer, died at Ramsgate, Kent.
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