Edward Welby Pugin (11 March 1834 – 5 June 1875) was an English
architect, the eldest son of architect
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and Louisa Barton and part of the
Pugin & Pugin family of church architects. His father was an architect and designer of
Neo-Gothic architecture, and after his death in 1852 Edward took up his successful practice. At the time of his own early death in 1875, Pugin had designed and completed more than one hundred
Catholic churches.
He was influenced by the neo-Gothic of
Viollet-le-Duc, in which expansive spatial planning was combined with great detail. He designed churches and cathedrals primarily in the British Isles. However, commissions for his exemplary work were also received from countries throughout Western Europe, Scandinavia, and as far away as North America.
1856:
Shrewsbury Cathedral, the Cathedral Church of Our Lady Help of Christians and Saint Peter of Alcantara, Town Walls, Shrewsbury (built as a cathedral)
1856: Our Lady Immaculate, St. Domingo Road,
Everton, Liverpool. Demolished. Lady Chapel of scheme for Liverpool Cathedral
1866–67: The Chapel of the Immaculate Conception,
Ratcliffe College, Ratcliffe on the Wreake, Leicestershire; converted for school use in 1962 on the completion of a new, larger chapel
1856 Basilica of Our Lady in Dadizele, finished off by Jean-Baptiste Bethune
1856 Castle of Loppem, in collaboration with James Murray and George Ashlin, finished off by Jean-Baptiste Bethune
1861 country estate near Bruges for bishop Joannes Baptista Malou, demolished
Works with James Murray (1856-c.1859)
Rugby Town Hall and Markets
(1857). The
old Town Hall stood on the High Street. It was built in 1857, with an extension in 1919. The upper floor became a cinema (Vint's Palace) around 1913. A bad fire destroyed most of the building in 1921 and it was rebuilt as Woolworths, which opened in 1923 and closed in 2009.[4]
Regarded as Dublin's finest Victorian church, SS Augustine and John (John's Lane Church) in the Liberties area was designed by E.W. Pugin and executed by his partner George Ashlin for the Augustinian Fathers. It was built between 1862 and 1895. It has the tallest spire in Dublin (231 ft), and occupies a prominent position on high ground overlooking the
Liffey Valley. It has a striking polychromatic appearance, being built in granite with red sandstone dressings.
The eminent Gothic revivalist Ruskin is said to have praised it, describing it as a "poem in stone".
Statues of the apostles in the niches of the spire are by James Pearse, father of Padraig and Willie, who were executed after the 1916
Easter Rising.
There is some good stained glass from the Harry Clarke studios.
Jean van Cleven, 'The Eternal Château': bouwgeschiedenis en kunsthistorische analyse van het neogotische kasteel van Loppem, in V. van Caloen, J. van Cleven, J. Braet Het Kasteel van Loppem, Stichting Kunstboek, 2001.
^Illustrated London News Illustrated London News Saturday 15 August 1857 Saturday 15 August 1857
Further reading
Michael Fisher, Pugin-Land: A W N Pugin, Lord Shrewsbury and the Gothic Revival in Staffordshire, Stafford Fisher, 2002.
Rachel Hasted, Scarisbrick Hall – A Guide, Social History at Lancashire County Museum Service, 1984.
Frederick O'Dwyer, Ecclesiastical Architecture from 1829 in W.J. McCormack (ed) Modern Irish Culture, Oxford:Blackwell, 2001.
Frederick O'Dwyer, A Victorian Partnership – The Architecture of Pugin & Ashlin in John Graby (ed) 150 Years of Architecture in Ireland, Dublin, Eblana Editions, 1989.
Jeanne Sheehy, The Rediscovery of Ireland's Past, The Celtic Revival 1830–1930. London 1980.
Edward Welby Pugin (11 March 1834 – 5 June 1875) was an English
architect, the eldest son of architect
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and Louisa Barton and part of the
Pugin & Pugin family of church architects. His father was an architect and designer of
Neo-Gothic architecture, and after his death in 1852 Edward took up his successful practice. At the time of his own early death in 1875, Pugin had designed and completed more than one hundred
Catholic churches.
He was influenced by the neo-Gothic of
Viollet-le-Duc, in which expansive spatial planning was combined with great detail. He designed churches and cathedrals primarily in the British Isles. However, commissions for his exemplary work were also received from countries throughout Western Europe, Scandinavia, and as far away as North America.
1856:
Shrewsbury Cathedral, the Cathedral Church of Our Lady Help of Christians and Saint Peter of Alcantara, Town Walls, Shrewsbury (built as a cathedral)
1856: Our Lady Immaculate, St. Domingo Road,
Everton, Liverpool. Demolished. Lady Chapel of scheme for Liverpool Cathedral
1866–67: The Chapel of the Immaculate Conception,
Ratcliffe College, Ratcliffe on the Wreake, Leicestershire; converted for school use in 1962 on the completion of a new, larger chapel
1856 Basilica of Our Lady in Dadizele, finished off by Jean-Baptiste Bethune
1856 Castle of Loppem, in collaboration with James Murray and George Ashlin, finished off by Jean-Baptiste Bethune
1861 country estate near Bruges for bishop Joannes Baptista Malou, demolished
Works with James Murray (1856-c.1859)
Rugby Town Hall and Markets
(1857). The
old Town Hall stood on the High Street. It was built in 1857, with an extension in 1919. The upper floor became a cinema (Vint's Palace) around 1913. A bad fire destroyed most of the building in 1921 and it was rebuilt as Woolworths, which opened in 1923 and closed in 2009.[4]
Regarded as Dublin's finest Victorian church, SS Augustine and John (John's Lane Church) in the Liberties area was designed by E.W. Pugin and executed by his partner George Ashlin for the Augustinian Fathers. It was built between 1862 and 1895. It has the tallest spire in Dublin (231 ft), and occupies a prominent position on high ground overlooking the
Liffey Valley. It has a striking polychromatic appearance, being built in granite with red sandstone dressings.
The eminent Gothic revivalist Ruskin is said to have praised it, describing it as a "poem in stone".
Statues of the apostles in the niches of the spire are by James Pearse, father of Padraig and Willie, who were executed after the 1916
Easter Rising.
There is some good stained glass from the Harry Clarke studios.
Jean van Cleven, 'The Eternal Château': bouwgeschiedenis en kunsthistorische analyse van het neogotische kasteel van Loppem, in V. van Caloen, J. van Cleven, J. Braet Het Kasteel van Loppem, Stichting Kunstboek, 2001.
^Illustrated London News Illustrated London News Saturday 15 August 1857 Saturday 15 August 1857
Further reading
Michael Fisher, Pugin-Land: A W N Pugin, Lord Shrewsbury and the Gothic Revival in Staffordshire, Stafford Fisher, 2002.
Rachel Hasted, Scarisbrick Hall – A Guide, Social History at Lancashire County Museum Service, 1984.
Frederick O'Dwyer, Ecclesiastical Architecture from 1829 in W.J. McCormack (ed) Modern Irish Culture, Oxford:Blackwell, 2001.
Frederick O'Dwyer, A Victorian Partnership – The Architecture of Pugin & Ashlin in John Graby (ed) 150 Years of Architecture in Ireland, Dublin, Eblana Editions, 1989.
Jeanne Sheehy, The Rediscovery of Ireland's Past, The Celtic Revival 1830–1930. London 1980.