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Edward Welby Pugin

Memorial bust to Edward Pugin, in front of Granville House (formerly the Granville Hotel, Ramsgate). “In memory of Edward Welby Pugin, the gifted and accomplished son of Augustus Welby Pugin, one of England`s greatest architects: born 11th March, 1834, died 5th June, 1875. This bust is erected by Edmund Francis Davis. 1879.”

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. His father was a famous 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 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.

Works in Ireland

• SS Peter and Paul's, Carey's Lane, Cork (1859)


• Edermine, Enniscorthy, County Wexford (c. 1858)


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  Cobh Cathedral (1867)


• Killarney Cathedral


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  Fermoy Roman Catholic Church, County Cork (1867)


• Drogheda Christian Brothers Residence (currently Scholars Townhouse Hotel (1867)


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  Crosshaven Roman Catholic Church, County Cork (1869)


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  Monkstown Roman Catholic Church, County Dublin (1866)


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  Monkstown Roman Catholic Church, County Cork (1866)


• Convent of Mercy, Skibbereen, County Cork (1867)


• Convent of Mercy, Birr, County Offaly
  


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  John's Lane Church, Dublin
  


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  Attributed to:


• AIB bank, Midleton
  


• Midleton Arms


• Church and Convent, Ramsgrange, County Wexford
  


• Bellevue Roman Catholic Church, County Wexford
  

Works in England

Meanwood Towers in Meanwood, Leeds

Gorton Monastery

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  St. Begh's Church, Whitehaven, Cumberland (1868)


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  St. Mary of Furness Roman Catholic Church, Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire (1866–67)


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  St. Mary's Church, Cleator, Cumberland (1872)


• Our Lady and St. Michael's Church, Workington, Cumberland (1876)


• St. Patrick's Wolverhampton (demolished)


• 1853: Our Lady Immaculate and St Cuthbert, Crook, Co Durham
  


• 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


• 1856: St. Vincent de Paul, St. James Street, Liverpool


• 1857: Holy Cross, Croston, Lancashire. Small estate church


• 1857: Sacred Heart Church, Blackpool
  


• 1857–59: Our Lady and St. Hubert, Great Harwood, Lancashire


• 1858: St Peter's School, Woolwich


• 1859: Belmont Abbey, Hereford, Herefordshire (the Abbey Church was built as the pro-Cathedral for Wales)


• 1860: Octagonal Chapter House, Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, Leicestershire


• 1859–60: Our Lady of la Salette, Liverpool
  


• 1860: St. Mary Immaculate, Warwick
  


• 1860–61: St. Anne, Westby, Kirkham, Lancashire


• 1861: St. Edward, Thurloe Street, Rusholme, Manchester


• 1861–65: St. Michael, West Derby Road, Everton, Liverpool
  


• 1862: St. Anne, Chester Road, Stretford, near Manchester


• 1862: St. Austin, Wolverhampton Road, Stafford
  


• 1863: St. Peter, Greengate, Salford, Lancashire
  


• 1863: SS Henry and Elizabeth, Sheerness, Kent


• 1863: Convent of Our Lady of Charity and Refuge, Bartestree, Herefordshire (Subsequently, converted to flats)


• 1863: St Joseph, Bolton Road, Anderton, Chorley, Lancashire


• 1863-64: Monument to Everard Aloysius Lisle Phillipps, VC, Cademan Wood, Whitwick, Leicestershire


• 1864: Our Lady and All Saints, New Road, Stourbridge, Worcestershire


• 1864: St. Marie, Lugsdale Road, Widnes, Cheshire (redundant)


• 1864: Our Lady of Redemption, Wellesley Road, Croydon
  


• 1864: St. Hubert, Dunsop Bridge, Yorkshire


• 1864-66: Augustinian Priory, school and church (St Monica), Hoxton Square, London, N1^[1]


• 1865: St. Mary, Euxton, Lancashire


• 1865: St. Catherine, Kingsdown, Kent


• 1865–66: Mayfield Boys' Orphanage (later Mayfield College, from 2007 converted to residential apartments as Mayfield Grange), Mayfield, Sussex


• 1865–67: St. Joseph, York Road, Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire


• 1866: Euxton Hall Chapel, Euxton, near Chorley, Lancashire


• 1866: St Francis Monastery, Gorton, Manchester
  


• 1866: Our Blessed Lady and St. Joseph, Leadgate, Durham
  


• 1866: Chancel and transepts to Mount St Mary's Church, Leeds
  


• 1866–68: Meanwood Towers, Meanwood, Leeds


• 1866–67: St. Mary, Duke Street, Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire
  


• 1866–67: St Michael and All Angels, Mortuary Chapel and Knill Memorial, Brockley Cemetery, London, destroyed by bombing in 1944


• 1866–67: Church of St Thomas of Canterbury and the English Martyrs, Preston, Lancashire, (extended in 1887–88)


• 1867: St Paul's Church, Dover, Kent
  


• 1867–68: St Mary, Fleetwood, Lancashire
  


• 1867–68: All Saints' Church in Urmston, Greater Manchester^[2]


• 1867–71: Our Lady and St Paulinus, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
  


• 1868: Two colleges at Mark Cross, Sussex


• 1868: St. Begh, Coach Road, Whitehaven, Cumberland
  


• 1869–72: Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Cleator, Cumberland
  


• 1869: St. Michael's Orphanage for Girls, aka St Joseph's College, Mark Cross, East Sussex


• 1869: Granville Hotel, Ramsgate, Kent
  


• 1871: Stanbrook Abbey, Powick, Worcestershire
  


• 1873: St Mary's Church, Brierley Hill


• 1875 Edward Welby Pugin dies


• 1875: St. Anne Rommer, Highfield Road, Rockferry, Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire designed by E.W. Pugin


• 1875–76: The English Martyrs, London. E.W. Pugin design


• 1876: Our Lady Star of the Sea, Workington. E.W. Pugin design


• 1877: St Mary's Church, Warrington, Cheshire. E.W. Pugin design

Works in Wales and Scotland

• 1854 St Mary's Star of the Sea Church, Leith, Edinburgh


• 1857 Cathedral of our Lady of Sorrows, Wrexham
  


• 1862: Church of St. Mary, Haddington
  


• 1874: Church of St Mary and St Finnan, Glenfinnan

Works in the Isle of Man

• 1865 St Patrick, Peel, Isle of Man

Works in association with George Ashlin

John's Lane Church in Dublin

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  Ss Peter and Paul's, Cork, (1859)


• Convent of Mercy, Clonakilty, County Cork (1867)


• Convent and Orphanage, William Street North, Dublin (1867)


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  SS Augustine and John, Thomas Street, Dublin (1860)

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.

• Presentation Convent, Fethard, County Tipperary (1862)


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  Harrington Street Catholic Church, Dublin (1867); online
  


• Donnybrook Catholic Church, Dublin (1863)


• Monkstown Catholic Church, Co. Dublin (1865)


• Arles Catholic Church, Stradbally, County Laois (1965)


• Ferrybank Catholic Church, Waterford (1867)


• Kilanerin Catholic Church, Wexford (1865)


• Lady's Island Catholic Church, Co. Wexford (1863)

Sources

• Dictionary of Scottish Architects

References

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.


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  Jeanne Sheehy, The Rediscovery of Ireland's Past, The Celtic Revival 1830–1930. London 1980.

External links

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  Media related to Edward Welby Pugin at Wikimedia Commons


• Pugin Society


• E.W. Pugin buildings on Archiseek.com