Peter Paul Pugin (1851 – March 1904) was an English

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. He was the son of

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by his third wife, Jane Knill, and the half-brother of architect and designer

Edward Welby Pugin 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 an architect in the Gothic Revival style, and after his early death in 1 ...

Life and career

Peter Paul Pugin was only a year old when his father died. He later began practice as the junior partner in Pugin & Pugin, the family architectural firm. The senior partner was his half-brother Edward Welby Pugin.
Pugin in 'The Dictionary of Scottish Architects. When Edward Welby Pugin died suddenly on 5 June 1875 as a result of overwork and 'injudicious use of

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', the main responsibility for the practice passed to Peter Paul Pugin. Although Peter Paul's offices remained in

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, England and

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, England, his practice was largely Scottish, and he also maintained an office in

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, Scotland. Whereas Peter Paul's earlier churches were strongly influenced by his father and brother, by the 1880s, he had developed a recognisable curvilinear Gothic style, usually in red sandstone with elaborate altarpieces in coloured marbles. Apart from his own works, such as St Mary's Church, Stirling, Peter Paul Pugin completed several of the works of Edward Welby Pugin after the latter's death, in particular the

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, Cumbria, Sacred Heart Church, Kilburn, London and

English Martyrs Church, Tower Hill English Martyrs Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Tower Hill, London. It was built from 1873 to 1876, by Pugin & Pugin according to designs by their deceased brother, E. W. Pugin. It is located on Prescot Street, close to the Royal Co ...

, London. In 1886, Peter Paul Pugin married Agnes Bird, the third daughter of the Catholic builder John Bird of

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. They had five children, but none entered the practice. In 1889, Peter Paul Pugin was made a Knight of the Order of St. Sylvester, one of the

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. Peter Paul died in

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in March 1904, the firm being continued by his nephew Sebastian Pugin Powell, born in 1886, the son of John Hardman Powell. Peter Paul Pugin was buried in

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Works

File:Pugin Altar.jpg, Altar in St Mary and St Benedict's Church,

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St Mary's RC Church, Stirling.jpg, St Mary's Church, Stirling

References

External links

List of churches designed and built by E. W. Pugin and P. P. PuginPugin on the Dictionary of Scottish Architects websiteThe Pugin Society
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pugin, Peter Paul 1851 births 1904 deaths 19th-century English architects English ecclesiastical architects Gothic Revival architects English Roman Catholics Peter Paul Knights of the Order of St. Sylvester Architects of Roman Catholic churches Architects from London