PUGIN

August us Welby North more (only child of August us Charles Pugin, architect 1762–1832). b. 34 Store st. Bedford sq. London 1 March 1812; educ. Christ’s hospital; designed the furniture for Windsor castle June 1827; executed the scenery for the ballet of Kenilworth at Drury Lane 1831; architect at Salisbury 1833–41, at Cheyne walk, Chelsea 1841, then at Ramsgate to his death, where he built for himself a house with a church adjoining on the West Cliff; joined the Church of Rome 1834; designed for the earl of Shrews bury the addition to Alton Towers, the church at Cheadle, and the chapel and other buildings at St. John’s hospital, Alton; prepared for Charles Barry all the detail drawings for the new houses of parliament 1836–40; designed the cathedrals of South wark, Killarney, and Enniscorthy, and many churches, chiefly Roman Catholic; author of Gothic furniture in the style of the fifteenth century 1835; Contrasts, Salisbury 1836, 2 ed. 1841; Designs for gold and silver smiths 1836; Designs for bra and iron work 1836; The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture 1841; An apology for the revival of Christian architecture in England 1843; Glo ary of ecclesiastical ornament and costume 1844, 3 ed. 1868; Some remarks on articles in the Rambler 1850; A treatise on chancel screens 1851; Church and state, or christian liberty 1875, 4 ed. 1875; a patient in a private asylum 1852, removed to Bedlam; Jane Pugin, his wife, granted civil list pension of £100, 2 Sept. 1852. d. St. Augustine’s, Ramsgate 14 Sept. 1852. Ferrey’s Recollections of A. W. N. Pugin (1861) portrait ; J. C. Colquhoun’s Scattered leaves of biography (1864) 317–60; Metropolitan and provincial Catholic almanac (1853) 5–10 portrait ; I.L.N. xxi 281, 282 (1852) portrait .