Pugin & Pugin (

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c.1873–c.1958) was a London-based family firm of church architects.

History

The origins of the Pugin & Pugin firm lay with the practice of

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 ...

(1834–1875); he had worked in the London office of his father

Augustus Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (), was the founder of the Roman Empire, who reigned as the first Roman emperor from 27 BC until his death in A ...

, who died in 1852 when Edward was eighteen. After Edward Pugin was bankrupted by a business venture in 1873, the firm's work in England and Scotland was continued by his brother

Cuthbert Welby Pugin Cuthbert Welby Pugin (2 June 1840 – 25 March 1928) was an English architect, furniture builder and businessman working in the gothic revival style. Life and career He was the son of Augustus Pugin and his second wife, Louisa Burton, making hi ...

(1840–1928) and half-brother

Peter Paul Pugin Peter Paul Pugin (1851 – March 1904) was an English architect. He was the son of Augustus Pugin by his third wife, Jane Knill, and the half-brother of architect and designer Edward Welby Pugin. Life and career Peter Paul Pugin was only a ...

(1851–1904), and the name of the practice became Pugin & Pugin.

Buildings

Augustus Pugin - Design for a Gothic Screen - B1977

The firm worked exclusively in the

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an Architectural style, architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half ...

style, and produced many buildings, alterations and furnishings for the

Catholic Church The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...

, such as the sanctuary of the Sacred Heart Church, Liverpool;

Sacred Heart Church, Kilburn Sacred Heart Church or the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Roman Catholic parish church in Kilburn, London. It was designed by E. W. Pugin and built after his death by his brothers Pugin & Pugin in two stages, in 1879 and from 1898 to 1 ...

;

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 ...

;

St Mary's Church, Morecambe St Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic church in Morecambe, Lancashire, England. It is the first Catholic Church in Morecambe to be built after the Reformation. It is located on the corner of Lord Street and Matthias Street in the centre of the town ...

; the presbytery of the Sacred Heart Church in Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland; and St Mary's Church in Stirling.The firm designed the high altar of the church of St John Cantius and St Nicholas Catholic Church in

Broxburn Broxburn (, ) is a town in West Lothian, Scotland. It is from the West End of Edinburgh, from Edinburgh Airport and to the north of Livingston. Originally a village known as Easter Strathbock in the medieval period, by 1600, the village ha ...

, West Lothian in caen stone and marble. There are reputedly about a hundred buildings by the firm in Australasia, built from the mid-1850s onwards, for the Roman Catholic Church. All but one are in Australia; the singular example in New Zealand is the 1894 Bishop's Palace in Saint Mary's Bay, Auckland, commissioned by Dom John Edmund Luck (1840–1896), Bishop of Auckland.

References

External links

Pugin & Pugin, Short Biography

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pugin and Pugin Architecture firms based in London Companies established in 1851 Architects of Roman Catholic churches 1851 establishments in England