Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin was born in Bloomsbury, London on 1 March 1812. He died in Ramsgate, Kent on 14 September 1852. His father, Augustus Charles Pugin (1762-1832) was an architectural draughtsman who had emigrated to England in c.1798. Between 1821 and 1838 he published a series of drawings on Gothic architecture.
After leaving school, the younger Pugin worked in his father's office from 1825 to 1827. His career as an independent designer commenced at the early age of 15 in 1827 when he received a commission to design a gothic-style chalice for George IV [now known as the Coronation Cup]. Soon after, he was commissioned by the upholsterers Morel and Seddon to design furniture for the new apartments at Windsor Castle.
By the late 1820s he had developed an interest in the theatre and in 1829 was employed as a stage carpenter at Covent Garden in London. Within a year he was designing stage sets for William Grieve (1800–1844) at the King's Theatre in London, including for the ballet Kenilworth in 1831.
In 1829, Pugin set up a business designing and making interior decorations and furniture. however, it failed in 1831. In the early 1830s he decided to pursue a career as an architect. Although he had done some work for the Scottish architect James Gillespie Graham (1776–1855), he lacked the necessary training for the profession. He therefore, appears to have embarked on a course of self-education. Between 1832 and 1834 he toured France, Germany, Belgium and England studying and drawing mediaeval architecture. He also began designing imaginary mediaeval buildings in book form. These included The Hospital of St. John (1833), The Deanery (1834), and St. Marie's College (1834).
In c.1834 he began working for the architects James Gillespie Graham (1776-1855) and Charles Barry (1795–1860). In the autumn of 1835 he drew their competition entries for the new houses of parliament. In January 1836 Barry was declared the winner. Pugin continued to assist him for a further year with the preparatory drawings for the estimate.
In 1835-36 he designed and built a house for himself, St. Marie's Grange in Alderbury, near Salisbury, and in August 1836 he published what is considered one of his most influential books: Contrasts, or, A parallel between the noble edifices of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and similar buildings of the present day; shewing the present decay of taste: accompanied by appropriate text. The book has been described as his manifesto on Gothic Revival architecture.
In 1837 Pugin embarked on his career as an independent architect. His first commission came from Charles Scarisbrick (1801–1860), for whom he made substantial alterations to his sixteenth-century manor house, Scaribrick Hall in Scarisbrick, Lancashire between 1837 and 1845. In 1838 he began work on his first major architectural commission, Alton Towers, Staffordshire, designed for John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury (1791-1852).
By the early 1840s Pugin was being recognized as the leading Roman Catholic church architect of his generation. His first important commissions were St. Mary's Church in Derby (1837–39), St Alban's in Macclesfield (1839–41) and the Roman Catholic cathedral of St Chad in Birmingham (1839–41). Numerous other churches followed.
In 1841 he published what is considered his most important text on Gothic Revival architecture: The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture, in which he asserted that "Every feature of a building should be essential to its proper functioning and construction, and every feature of this construction should be frankly expressed."
Concurrent with his work as an architect, Pugin also worked as a designer. The extent of his work as a designer can be seen in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. It includes textiles for John G. Crace and Frederick Crace & Son, stained glass, for John Hardman, tiles for Minton, wallpaper for John G Crace & Son, furniture, art metalwork, and ecclesiastical for Hardman and Co. and Hardman and Iliffe.
In the late 1830s [or early 1840s - sources differ] Pugin left St. Marie's Grange in Alderbury which he was finding inconvenient as a base for his architectural practice, and after living temporarily in Chelsea, London, moved to Ramsgate in Kent, where he had built a house for himself, St Augustine's on the edge of a cliff. In February 1852 he experienced a complete mental collapse, possibly the result of overwork and inappropriate medical treatment. His health was never to recover and he died at St Augustine's on 14 September 1852.
Restoration of John Halle's Hall, Salisbury (1834); Saint Marie's Grange, Clarendon Park, Aldbury, Wiltshire (1835-36); Decorations at King Edwad VI Grammer Schoold, Warwickshire (1835-36); St. James's, Reading (1837); Chapel, and completion of building, Oscott (1837-38)' Saint Mary's church and presbytery, Derby (1837-39); Partial design of Scarisbrick Hall, Ornskirk, Lancashire, designed (1837-45); additions to Alton Towers, Staffordshire (1838-46); Church of Our Blessed Lady and Saint Thomas church of Canterbury, Dudley, Worcestershire (1838); St. Anne's, Keightley, Yorkshire (1838); Saint Augustine's church (1838); Chapel and interior fittings, St. Peter's church, Wexford, Ireland (1838); St. Alban's church, Macclesfield, Cheshire (1838-41); Convent of Mercy, Bermondsey, London (1839); Chapel, altar and roof, Loreto Abbey, Rathfarnum, Ireland (1839); Church and convent, St. Michael the Archangel, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire (1839); St. Marie's church, Warwick Bridge, Cumberland (1839-40); Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Chad, Warwickshire (1839-41); School, presbytery, and decoration of chancel, St. John's church, Banbury, Oxfordshire (1839-42); Mount St. Bernard Abbey, Coalville, Leicestershire (1839); Entrance and interior details, Castle Rock, Leicestershire 1840); Church of Our Lady, Warwick Bridge, Cumberland (1840); St. Cuthbert's College, Durham (1840); Chapel and School, St. Oswald's, Liverpool (1840); St. Winifrede's Chapel, Shepshed, Leicestershire (1840); Hospital, and adjoining presbytery and house, St. John and Alston Castle, Alton, Staffordshire (1840); Convent of the Sisters of Mercy, Handsworth, Birmingham (1840); Decorations and additions, Grace Dieu Manor, Leicestershire (1840); Church, presbytery and school, St. Winifrede's, Neston, Cheshire (1840-43); St. Alphonsus, Barntown, Wexford, Ireland (1840-44); Church, St. Joseph's Convent, presbytery and school, St. Giles's, Cheadle, Staffordshire (1840-48); St. George's Cathedral, Southwark, London (1840-48); St. Cuthbert's College, Durham (1840-52); Jesus Chapel and alterations to house, Ackworth Grange, Pontefract, Yorkshire (1841); Additions and remodelling, St. Mary's church, Edinburgh, with James Gillespie Graham (1841); Chapel of the Holy Trinity, convent, school and presbytery (1841); Decoration of chancel ceiling, St. Swithin's church, Leadenham, Leicestershire (1841); School, Spetchley, Worcestershire (1841); Presbytery, St. Augustine of England, Kenilworth, Warwickshire (1841-42); St. Mary's church, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham (1841-42); St. Wilfrid's, Hume, Manchester (1841-42); St. Barnabas's Presbytery, Nottingham (1841-44); St. Mary's church, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, with Joseph A. Hansom (1841-44); St. Marie's church, Liverpool (1841-47); Farm buildings, bridge, gatehouse, Oxenford Grange, Elstead, Surrey (1841-48); Renovations and additions, Peper Harow House, Godalming Surrey (1841-48); Renovation and additions, Bilton Grange, Rugby, Warwickshire (1841-51); Altar and reredos, St. Anne's church, Leeds, Yorkshire (1842); St. Mary's church, Killarney, Ireland (1842); St. Peter's Presbytery, Woolwich, London (1842-43); Church, presbytery and school, St. Mary's, Brewood, Staffordshire (1842-44); St. John the Evangelist church, Kirkham, Lancashire (1842-45); Restoration and repairs, St. Mary's church, Beverley, Yorkshire (1842-52); The Great, Ramsgate, Kent (1843-44); Girl's School, Chirk, Denbighshire (1843-44); Main front and general plan, Ratcliffe College, Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake, Leicestershire (1844), completed by Joseph A. Hansom and Edward Welby Pugin; Repairs and additions, St. Nicholas's, Peper Harow, Surrey (1844); Repairs and addions, St. Mary's church, Wymeswold, Leicestershire (1844-50); Restoration of the Cathedral of Our Lady, Northampton, Northamtonshire (1844-51); Oswaldcroft, Liverpool (1844); St. Wilfrid's College, Cotton College, Staffordshire (1844); Interior decoration of Houses of Parliament, London, with Charles Barry (1844-1852); Rectory, Rampisham, Dorset (1845-46); Restoration of chancel of parish church, Rampisham, Dorset (1845-46); Parish church, Tagoat, Ireland (1845-46); St. Marie's Church, Rugby, Warwickshire (1845-46); St. Mary's church, West Tofts, Norfolk (1845-46); Woodchester Park, near Stroud, Gloucestershire (1845-47; completed by others); Church, Rectory and school, St. Lawrence's, Tubney, Berkshire (1845-47); St. Peter's, Marlow, Buckinghamshire (1845-48); Convent of Mercy, Nottingham (1845-50); Our Lady of the Annunciation, Bishop Eton, Liverpool (1845-52); St. Augustine, Ramsgate, Kent (1845-53); St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland (1845-52); Interior details, Adare Manor, Adare, Co. Limerick, Ireland (1846-47); Additions, village church, Adare Manor, Adare, Co. Limerick, Ireland (1846-48); Convent, Birr, Ireland (1846-48); Renovation and additions, Chirk Castle, Denbighshire (1846); Chapel and house, St. Edmund's College, Ware, Hertfordshire (1846-52); Rectory, Lanteglos-by-Camelford, Cornwall (1847); St. Anne's Bede Houses, Lincoln (1847); Additions and interior decorations, Burton Closes, Bakewell, Derbyshire (1847-48); Chance, St. Oswald's church, Winwick, Liverpool (1847-49); church and presbytery, St. Thomas's, Fulham, London (1847-49); Manor House, Wilburton, Cambridgeshire (1848); Chapel, St. Cuthburt, Durham (1848); Interior decoration, Eastnor Castle, Ledbury, Hertfordshire (1849); Chapel decoration, Jesus College, Cambridge (1849); Furniture and decoration, Lismore Castle, Ireland, with John G. Crace (1849-50); Aston Cemetery Chapel, Birmingham (1849-50); Interior vdecoration, Leighton Hall, Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, Wales (1850); Rolle, Bicton, Mortuary Chapel, Bicton Grange, Devon (1850); Petre Chantry interior, St. George's Cathedral, Southwark, London (1850); and decoration of the chancel and Chapel of St. Joseph, Church of Our Ladye Star of the Sea, Greenwich, London, with Edward Welby Pugin (1851).
A) Writings on Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin:
Andrews, Brian. Creating a Gothic Paradise: Pugin at the Antipodes. Hobart, Tasmania: Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
Andrews, Brian. 'Pugin in Australia' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 246-257
Armstrong, Barrie and Armstrong, Wendy. The Arts and Crafts movement in the North East of England: a handbook. Wetherby, England: Oblong, 2013;
A. W. N. Pugin: Master of Gothic Revival, edited by Paul Atterbury. New Haven, Connecticut: Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York by Yale University Press, 1995 [Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibtion held at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts from November 9, 1995 to February 25, 1996. Contents: Gothic sensibility : the early years of the Gothic Revival / Megan Aldrich -- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin : a biographical sketch / Rosemary Hill -- The Catholic context / David Meara -- A.W.N. Pugin and France / Clive Wainwright -- Pugin's architecture in context / Andrew Saint -- The ideal of the Gothic cathedral in 1852 / Barry Bergdoll -- The Pugins in Ireland / Roderick O'Donnell -- A.W.N. Pugin and the progress of design as applied to manufacture / Clive Wainwright -- Pugin and interior design / Paul Atterbury -- A.W.N. Pugin and the Gothic movement in North America / Margaret Henderson Floyd -- Catalogue of the exhibition / Paul Atterbury with Malcolm A.C. Hay, Roderick O'Donnell, and Clive Wainwright]
Atterbury, Paul. 'Ceramics' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 143-152
Ayling, Stephen. Photographs from sketches by Augustus Welby N. Pugin, edited by Edward Welby Pugin, 2 volumes. London: S. Ayling 1865
Banham, Joanna. 'Wallpaper' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 118-126
Barry, Alfred. The architect of the new palace at Westminster : A reply to a pamphlet by E.W. Pugin, Esq., entitled "Who was the art-architect of the Houses of Parliament?" London: John Murray, 1868 [See also: Pugin, Edward Welby. Who was the art architect of the Houses of Parliament?]
Belcher, Margaret. The Collected Letters of A.W.N. Pugin; Volume 1: 1830-1842. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001
Belcher, Margaret. The Collected Letters of A.W.N. Pugin; Volume 2: 1843-1845. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003
Belcher, Margaret. The Collected Letters of A.W.N. Pugin; Volume 3: 1846-1848. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009
Belcher, Margaret. The Collected Letters of A.W.N. Pugin; Volume 4: 1849-1850. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009
Belcher, Margaret. 'Pugin writing' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 104-117
Belcher, Margaret. A study of Contrasts and other writings of A.W.N. Pugin in relation to the mediaevalist tradition in Victorian literature : together with a bibliography of publications by and about him. Ph.D. thesis, University of Canterbury (New Zealand), 1987
Belcher, Margaret. A. W. N. Pugin: An Annotated Critical Bibliography. London and New York: Mansell Publishing Ltd., 1987
Bianco, L. ‘Limestone in Post-War British Architecture: Is it a plea for a return to Pugin?’ Melita Theologica vol. 49, no. 2, 1998 pp. 71-80
Blaker, Catriona. Edward Pugin and Kent. His Life and Work Within the County. Ramsgate: he Pugin Society, 2003
Bright, Michael. ‘A Reconsideration of A.W.N. Pugin’s Architectural Theories’. Victorian Studies, vol. 22, no. 2, Winter 1979 pp. 151-172.
Brittain-Catlin, Timothy. The Bishop’s House in Birmingham’. Studies in Victorian Architecture & Design vol. 1, 2008 pp. 96-105.
Brittain-Catlin, Timothy John. A.W.N. Pugin's English residential architecture in its context. Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge, 2004
Brittain-Catlin, Timothy. ‘A.W.N. Pugin’s English Convent Plans’. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 65, no. 3, September 2006 pp. 355-377.
Brittain-Catlin, Timothy. ‘It all melts away: A.W.N. Pugin in Oxford’. True Principles. the Journal of the Pugin Society vol 2 no 4, Summer 2002, pp 32-34.
Bukta, Ágnes. Christianity and architecture in the works and ideas of A. W. N. Pugin madness and modernity in an early Victorian interpretation of Gothic / Kereszténység és építészet A. W. N. Pugin munkásságában : őrültség és modernitás a gótika egy kora viktoriánius értelmezésében. M.A thesis, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Anglisztika Tanszék (Budapest), 2006.
Burton, Kathryn Lee. A.W.N. Pugin and St. Augustine's, Ramsgate: a nineteenth-century English gothic revivalist and his church. Ph. D., Oregon State University, 2007
Bury, Shirley. ‘In search of Pugin's church plate. Part 1: Pugin, Hardman and the Industrial Revolution’. Connoisseur vol. 165, May 1967 pp. 29-35
Bury, Shirley. 'Jewellery' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 165-171
Bury, Shirley. ‘Pugin and the Tractarians’. Connoisseur vo. 179, 1972 pp. 15-20
Bury, Shirley. 'Pugin's marriage jewellery'. Victoria and Albert Museum Yearbook vol. 1, 1969 pp. 85-96
Clark, Alexandra Gordon. ‘A. W. N. Pugin in Victorian Architecture, edited by Peter Ferriday. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963 pp. 137-151
Cornforth, John. ‘Adare Manor, Co. Limerick’. Country Life vol.145, 22 May 1969 pp. 1302-1306 [Discusses the contribution made by Pugin to the rebuilding of Adare Manor from 1836 to 1850]
Conner, Patrick R. M. ‘Pugin and Ruskin’. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute, vol. 41, 1978 pp. 344-350.
Crowder, Ashby Bland. ‘Pugin’s Contrasts: Sources for its Technique’. Architectura, vol. 13, no. 1, 1983 pp. 57-63.
De Ballaigue, Geoffrey and Kirkham, Pat. ‘George IV and the furnishing of Windsor Castle’. Furniture History vol. 8, 1972 pp. 1-34 [Discusses the commission received by Pugin in 1827 to reproduce pieces of the furnishing at Windsor Castle and how he went beyond his brief]
Donnell, Roderick. ‘Pugin Designs for Downside Abbey’. The Burlington Magazine vol. 123, no. 937 April 1981 pp. 230-233
Donnell, Roderick. ‘Pugin in France: Designs for St Edmund's College Chapel, Douai (Nord) 1840’. The Burlington Magazine
vol. 125, no. 967, October 1983 pp. 607-609, 611
Donnell, Roderick. The Pugins and the Catholic Midlands. Leominster: Gracewing, 2002
The drawings and manuscripts of A.W.N. Pugin : from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Reading, Berkshire, England; Woodbridge, CT; Research Publications,1989.
Eastlake, Charles. A History of the Gothic Revival. London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1872.
Eatwell, Ann and North, Anthony. 'Metalwork' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 172-184
Edwards, Tudo. ‘Pugin and His Circle’. Blackfriars vol. 27, no. 315 pp. 209-213
Emery, Ruth. Augustus Welby Pugin and the Gothic revival. Ph.D. thesis, Cornell University, 1939.
Ferrey, Benjamin. Recollections of A. N. Pugin and His Father Augustus Pugin with Notices of Their Work. London: Edward Stanford, 1861
Fisher, Michael. Alton Towers: a Gothic Wonderland. Stafford: M.J. Fisher 1999
Fisher, Michael. Alton Towers: past and present. Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Landmark Publishing Ltd. 2009
Fisher, Michael. ‘Gothic For Ever’: A.W.N. Pugin, Lord Salisbury, and the Rebuilding of Catholic England. Reading, Spire Books 2012
Fisher, Michael. Guarding the Pugin Flame: John Hardman Powell 1827-1895. Downton, Salisbury : Spire Books, 2017
Fisher, Michael. 'Perfect Cheadle': St Giles' Catholic Church, Cheadle, Staffordshire: a history and guide. Stafford : M J Fisher 2004
Fisher, Michael. Pugin-Land: A.W.N. Pugin, Lord Shrewsbury and the Gothic Revival in Staffordshire. Stafford: Michael J. Fisher Publishing, 2002
Fisher, Michael. Vision of Splendour : Gothic Revival in Staffordshire, 1840-90. Stafford: Michael Fisher, 1995 [The book examines in detail the work of George Gilbert, A.W.N. Pugin, George Edmund Street, G.F. Bodley and Richard Norman Shaw]
Flores, Carol A. Hrvol. ‘Engagind the Mind’s Eye: The Use of Inscriptions in the Architecture of Owen Jones and A.W.N. Pugin’. Journal of the Society of Architectural History, vol. 60, No. 2, June 2001, pp. 158-179.
Forristal, Desmond. ‘Homage to Pugin’. The Furrow vol. 45, no. 10, 1994 pp. 584-587
Girouard, Mark. ‘Alton Castle and Hospital, Staffordshire’. Country Life vol. 128, 24 November 1960 pp. 1226-1229 [Discusses the rebuilding of Alton Castle and the construction of a replica of a medieval hospital, a Guildhall and Presbytery near to the castle by Pugin in the 1850s. The project was commissioned by the 16th Earl of Shrewsbury]
Girouard, Mark. The Victorian Country House. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, revised and enlarged edition, 1979
Gisson, Nicholas J. Augustus Welby Pugin: The Achitect as Liturgist. Ph.D. thesis, Graduate Theological Union, 1997
Gow, Ian. ‘Pugin and Trotter’. Architectural Heritage vol. 8, no. 1, 1997 pp. 60-63
Gwynn, Dennis R. Lord Shrewsbury, Pugin and the Catholic Revival. London: Hollis & Carter, 1946
Harries, John Glen. Pugin. Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: Shire Publications, 1975
Hill, Rosemary. Caledonia Gothica : Pugin and the Gothic Revival in Scotland. Edinburgh : University Press, 1997
Hill, Rosemary. ’From the Antiquary’s Cell to the Crystal Palace: Pugin’s Domestic Interiors’. Victorian, no. 11, November 2002 pp. 4-9.
Hill, Rosemary. God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain. London: Allen Lane, 2007
Hill, Rosemary. Pugin and Ramsgate. Ramsgate : Pugin Society, 1999.
Hill, Rosemary. ‘Pugin and Scotland’. Architectural Heritage vol. 8, no. 1, 1997 pp. 10-21
Hill, Rosemary. ‘Pugin's Churches‘. Architectural History
vol. 49, 2006 pp. 179-205
Hill, Rosemary. ‘Pugin's Small Houses ‘. Architectural History
vol. 46, 2003 pp. 147-174
Hill, Rosemary. ‘Reformation to millennium : Pugin's Contrasts in the history of English thought’. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians vol. 58, 1999 pp. 26-41
Hill, Rosemary. ‘Scarisbrick Hall, Lancashire’, Part 1’. Country Life vol. 196, no. 32, 8 August 2002 pp. 44-49 [Scarisbrick Hall was remodelled by A. W. N. Pugin in c, 1837-45]
Hill, Rosemary. ‘Scarisbrick Hall, Lancashire’, Part 2’. Country Life vol. 196, no. 33, 15 August 2002 pp. 44-47 [Scarisbrick Hall was remodelled by A. W. N. Pugin in c, 1837-45]
The Houses of Parliament, edited by M. H. Port. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1976
Hussey, Christopher. ‘Alton Towers, Staffordshire’. Country Life vol. 127, 2 June 1960 pp. 1246-1249 [Part one of a two-part article. Discusses the alterations and additions made by Pugin to Alton Towers in Farley, Staffordshire over several nyears from 1837]
Hussey, Christopher. ‘Alton Towers, Staffordshire’. Country Life vol. 127, 9 June 1960 pp. 1304-1307 [Part two of a two-part article. Discusses the alterations and additions made by Pugin to Alton Towers in Farley, Staffordshire over several years from 1837]
Hyland, Gerard Joseph. The Architectural Works of A.W.N. Pugin : A Catalogue. Reading Spire Books, 2014
Jacobs, Jamie Louise. Principles and practice : craft and mechanisation in the fabrication of A.W.N. Pugin's designs in the applied arts. Ph.D. thesis, University of Kent, 2021.
Jelley, F. R. ‘Six of the best: A.N.W. Pugin, “Man of Amazing Intellect”’. The Builder vol. 210, 17 June 1966 p. 100
Jespersen, John Kresten. From symbolic to aesthetic ornament : studies in the theories and designs of A.W.N. Pugin and Owen Jones. A.M. thesis, Brown University, 1977
Kelly, Charlotte. Augustus Pugin, 1812-1852’. The Irish Monthly vol. 61, no. 720, June 1933 pp. 380-389
Kinchin, Juliet. ‘Pugin and the Decorative Arts in Scotland’. Architectural Heritage vol. 8, no. 1, 1997 pp. 74-88
King, Terry. A.W.N. Pugin, his theories & their influence : the moral imperative in architecture. B. Arch. dissertation,University of New South Wales, 1984
Knight, J. E. The medieval sources used by A. W. N. Pugin in churches of the East Midlands. M.A. thesis, University of Nottingham, 1991.
Lambourne, Lionel. 'Pugin and the theatre' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp.34-41
Lewis, David Frazer. A. W. Pugin. Swindon: Historic England, 2021
Litvack, Leon B. ‘An auspicious alliance : Pugin, Bloxam, and the Magdalen Commissions’. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians vol. 49, 1990 pp. 154-160
Lubbock, Jules. ‘Pugin: Preaching Design’, in The Tyranny of Taste: The Politics of Architecture and Design in Britain, 1550-1960, edited by Jules Lubbock. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995, pp 233-247.
Macaulay, James. ‘James Gillespie Graham and A.W.N. Pugin: Some Perthshire Connections’. Architectural Heritage vol. 8, no. 1 1997 pp. 22-36
Marlis, Alan. August Welby Northmore Pugin's influence. Ph.D., City University of New York, 1974
Meara, David. A.W.N. Pugin and the Revival of Memorial Brasses. London: Mansell, 1991
Meara, David. 'Monuments and brasses' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 185-194
Meara, David. 'The opening of the Pugin Buriel Vault, St. Augustine's Church, Ramsgate 29 October 1992' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 p. 293
Millard, Dom Bede 'Textiles' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 185-194
Moran, Margaret O’Brien. Designing for religious life : A.W.N. Pugin and the Presentation Convent Waterford. M.A. History of Art and Design, University of Limerick, 2004
O'Donnell, Roderick. 'The later Pugin' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 259-271
O'Donnell, Roderick. 'Pugin as a church architect' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 62-89
O’Dwyer, Frederick. ‘A W N Pugin and St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth’. Irish Arts Review Yearbook vol. 12, 1996 pp. 102-110
O'Reilly, Sean. ‘Contrasting visions of history : the Rambler's rejection of Pugin.’ Architectural History vol. 41, 1998, pp. 179-191
Oswald, Arthur. ‘Albury Park, Surrey’. Country Life vol. 108, 25 August 1950 pp. 598-602 [Part one of a two-part article on Albury Park remodelled by Pugin for Henry Drummond]
Oswald, Arthur. ‘Albury Park, Surrey’. Country Life vol. 108, 1 September 1950 pp. 674-678 [Part two of a two-part article on Albury Park remodelled by Pugin for Henry Drummond]
Patrick, James. ‘Newman, Pugin, and Gothic’. Victorian Studies vol. 24, no. 2, Winter, 1981 pp. 185-207
Pevsner, Nikolaus. 'A short Pugin florelgium'. Architectural Review vol. 94, 1943 pp. 31-34
Pickett, Richard James. The Churchmanship of A.W.N. Pugin. M.A. thesis, University of Durham, 2001.
Piper, John and Buchanan, Peter. ‘The first home of A. W. N. Pugin’. Architectural Review vol. 98, October 1945 pp. 90-93 [St. Marie’s Grange in Salisbury, designed by Pugin and built in 1835]
Powell, Christabel. Augustus Welby Pugin, Designer of the British Houses of Parliament: The Victorian Quest for a Liturgical Architecture. New York: Lampeter Edwin Mellen Press. 2006
Powell, Christabel Jane. The Liturgical Vision of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Ph.D. thesis, University of Durham, 2002
Powell, Christabel. Pugin’s Theories. M.Litt. thesis,University of Oxford, 1996
Pugin at Maynooth - The Neo-Gothic contribution of A.W.N. Pugin to Maynooth College, edited by Marian Lyons. Maynooth, Ireland: St. Patrick's College, 2012
Pugin, Edward Welby. Who was the art architect of the Houses of Parliament? : A statement of facts, founded on the letters of Sir Charles Barry and the diaries of Augustus Welby Pugin, by E. Welby Pugin. Most respectfully dedicated to the Right Honourable and Honourable the Lords and Commons of Great Britain and Ireland. London : Longmans, Green, & Co., 1867 [See also: Barry, Alfred. The architect of the new palace at Westminster : A reply to a pamphlet by E.W. Pugin, Esq.]
'Pugin in his home' : a memoir by J.H. Powell, edited by Alexandra Wedgwood. Architectural history : the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain vol. 31, 1988 pp. 171-205.
Quinlan, Andrea. ‘Paris and its Environs: Augustus Charles Pugin's view of the city’. The British Art Journal vol. 10, no. 3, Winter/Spring 2009/10 pp. 125-130
Redmond, Gillian. A study of St. Aidan's Cathedral : its restoration and its architect, A.W.N. Pugin. B.Des. dissertation, Design, Visual Communication, National College of Art and Design, Dublin. 2003
Richardson, Carol M. ‘Edward Pugin and English Catholic Identity: The New Church of the Venerable English College in Rome’. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians vol. 66, no. 3, September 2007 pp. 340-365
Rogers, Derek. ‘A.C. Pugin's drawings of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton’. Connoisseur vol. 198, 1978 pp. 118-119
Rope, H. E. G. Pugin. Hassocks, Sussex: Pepler & Sewell, 1935
Saint, Andrew 'The fate of Pugin's True Principles' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 272-282
Sale Catalogues of Libraries of Eminent Persons. Volume 4: Architects. London: Mansell Information/Publishing, 1972 pp.239-283 [Reproduces the catalogues of Pugin’s possessions held 27-29 January 1853 and 8 June 1853]
Sanders, John. ‘Pugin & Pugin and the Diocese of Glasgow’. Architectural Heritage vol. 8, no. 1, 1997 pp. 89-107
Schwartz, Rudolph. A Pugin Bibliography: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin 1812-1852. Charlotteville, Virginia: American Association of Architectural Bibliographers, 1963
Service, Alastair. The Architects of London and their buildings from 1066 to the present. London: The Architectural Press, 1979
Sharples, Joseph. ‘A. W. Pugin and the Patronage of Bishop James Gillis’. Architectural History vol. 28, 1985 pp. 136-158
Shepherd, Stanley A. 'Stained glass' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 195-206
Shepherd, Stanley Alan. The Stained Glass of A.W.N. Pugin, c.1835-52. Ph.P. thesis, University of Birmingham, 1997
Simpson, D. Art and religion in the work of A.W.N. Pugin : a study with special reference to Pugin's literary achievement. Ph.D. thesis, Keele University, 1973
Sirr, Harry E. G.. ‘Augustus Welby Pugin: a sketch’. Royal Institute of British Architects Journal vol. 25, no. 10, August 1918 pp. 213-226
Spencer-Silver, Patricia. Pugin’s Builder: Life and work of George Myers. Leominster: Gracewing, 2nd, revised edition, 2010
Stamp, Gavin. The English House 1860-1914. Catalogue of an exhibition of photographs and drawings. London: International Architect and the Building Centre Trust, 1980 pp. 8-9
Stanton, Phoebe. The Gothic Revival and Welby Pugin. Ph.D. University of London (Courtauld Institute), 1950
Stanton, Phoebe B. The Gothic Revival and American Church Architecture, An Episode in Taste. Baltimmore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1968
Stanton, P. A. The Gothic revival and Welby Pugin.
Stanton, Phoebe. Pugin. London: Thames & Hudson, 1971
Stanton, Phoebe B. ‘Pugin at twenty-one'. Architectural Review vol. 110, 1951 pp. 187-190
Stanton, Phoebe B. ‘Pugin, Principles of design versus Revivalism’. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians vol. 13, October 1954 pp. 20-25
Stanton, Phoebe B. ‘Some comments of the life and work of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin’. Royal Institute of British Architects Journal vol. 60, December 1952 pp. 47-54
Stanton, Phoebe B. ‘The Sources of Pugin's Contrasts' in Concerning Architecture, edited by John Summerton. London: Allen Lane, 1968 pp. 120-139
Stanton, Phoebe B. 'Augustus Welby Pugin' in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects Volume 3, edited by Adolf K. Placzek London and New York: Macmilland and Free Press, 1982 pp. 484-497.
Summerson, John. ‘Pugin and Butterfield’. Architectural Review vol. 152, August 1972 pp. 97-99
Summerson, John. ‘Pugin at Ramsgate’. Architectural Review vol. 103, April 1948 pp. 163-166 [Discusses Pugin’s house, The Grange and the neighbouring Church of St. Augustine in Ramsgate, Kent]
Symondson, Anthony. ‘"Pugin" at the V & A Museum : a missed opportunity?’. Apollo. vol. 140, no. 595, 1995, 395 pp. 54-55
Talbot, Bruce. ‘Obituary’. The Builder vol. 25, no. 10, 1852 pp. 605-607
Trappez-Lomax, Michael. ‘Architect and something more’ Liturgical Arts vol. 2, third quarter, 1953 pp. 100-104 [Critical of Pugin’s work as an architect]
Trappez-Lomax, Michael. Pugin. A Mediaeval Victorian. London: Sheed & Ward, 1932
Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art. The Handley-Read Collection. London: The Royal Academy of Arts, 1972 [Catalogue of an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 4 March-30 April 1972]
Victorian Church Art. Londoin: H.M.S.O., 1971 [Catalogue of an exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, November 1971-January 1972 pp.7-21]
Wainwright, Clive. 'The antiquary and collector' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 90-103
Wainwright, Clive. ‘A.W.N. Pugin's early furniture’. Connoisseur vol. 191, no. 767, January 1976 pp. 3–11
Wainwright, Clive. 'Book design and production' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 153-164
Wainwright, Clive. ‘Furnishing the new palace : Pugin's furniture and fittings’. Apollo vol. 135, no. 363, May 1992 pp. 303-306
Wainwright, Clive. 'Furniture' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 127-142
Wainwright, Clive. ‘Principles true and false : Pugin and the foundation of the Museum of Manufactures’. The Burlington Magazine vol. 136, no. 1095, June 1994 pp. 357-364
Wainwright, Clive. ''Not a style but a principle': Pugin & his influence' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 1-21
Waterhouse, Paul. ‘The life and work of Welby Pugin’. Architectural Review vol. 3, 1897-98 pp. 167-175 [Part one of a seven-part article]
Waterhouse, Paul. ‘The life and work of Welby Pugin’. Architectural Review vol. 3, 1897-98 pp. 211-221 [Part two of a seven-part article]
Waterhouse, Paul. ‘The life and work of Welby Pugin'. Architectural Review vol. 3, 1897-98 pp. 264-273 [Part three of a seven-part article]
Waterhouse, Paul. ‘The life and work of Welby Pugin’. Architectural Review vol. 4, 1899 pp. 23-27 [Part four of a seven-part article]
Waterhouse, Paul. ‘The life and work of Welby Pugin'. Architectural Review vol. 4, 1899, pp. 67-73 [Part five of a seven-part article]
Waterhouse, Paul. ‘The life and work of Welby Pugin’. Architectural Review vol. 4, 1899, pp. 115-118 [Part six of a seven-part article]
Waterhouse, Paul. ‘The life and work of Welby Pugin’. Architectural Review vol. 4, 1899 pp. 159-165 [Part seven of a seven-part article]
Weyres, Willy. ‘Pugin über den Kölner Dom’. Kölner Domblatt vol. 41, 1976, pp. 241-242
Wedgwood, Alexandra. A.W.N. Pugin and the Pugin family. London: Victoria and Albert Museum 1985 [A catalogue of drawings by members of the Pugin family in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London]
Wedgwood, Alexandra. Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects. The Pugin family. Farnborough: Gregg, 1977
Wedgwood, Alexandra. 'Domestic architecture' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 42-61
Wedgwood, Alexandra. 'The early years' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 22-33
Wedgwood, Alexandra. 'The Mediaeval court' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 237-245
Wedgwood, Alexandra. 'The New Palace of Westminster' in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994 pp. 218-236
Whittaker, Charles. Sacred Heart Parish Henley-on Thames A Pugin Legacy. Henley-on-Thames: St Marks Publishing, 2014
Wickham, Eileen. ‘The Cultural Significance of the Pugin Legacy at St Peter’s College, Wexford’. The Past: The Organ of the Uí Cinsealaigh Historical Society No. 35, 2021 pp. 74-82
Williams, Guy R. Augustus Pugin versus Decimus Burton : a Victorian architectural duel. London: Cassell, 1990.
Young, Victoria M. A.W.N. Pugin's Mount Saint Bernard Abbey : the international character of England's nineteenth-century monastic revival. M. Arch. Hist. thesis,University of Virginia, 1997
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B) Writings by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (arranged chronologically):
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. Examples of Gothic architecture : selected from various antient edifices in England: consisting of plans, elevations, sections, and parts at large; calculated to exemplify the various styles, and the practical construction of this admired class of architecture: accompanied by historical and descriptive accounts. 3 volumes. London : Printed for the author. Bloomsbury, 1828-38
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. Gothic furniture: in the style of the 15th century, designed & etched by A.W.N. Pugin. London : Ackermann & Co., 1835.
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. Contrasts : or, A parallel between the noble edifices of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and similar buildings of the present day : shewing the present decay of taste: accompanied by appropriate text. London : Printed for the author and published by him, at St. Marie's Grange, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, 1836
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. Details of antient timber houses of the 15th & 16th centuries : selected from those existing at Rouen, Caen, Beauvais, Gisors, Abbeville, Strasbourg, etc. [London] Anno Christi 1836 : Ackerman & Co. 96 Strand, [1836]
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. The history and antiquities of the manor house and church at Great Chalfield, Wiltshire. London : Thomas Larkins Walker 1837
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. A reply to observations which appeared in "Fraser's Magazine," for March 1837, on a work entitled "Contrasts.". London : printed for the author, by James Moyes, 1837.
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. An apology for a work entitled "Contrasts;" being a defence of the assertions advanced in that publication, against the various attacks lately made upon it. Birmingham : Printed for the author, by R. P. Stone and Son, 1837.
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, Britton, John and Leeds, William Henry. Illustrations of the public buildings of London : with historical and descriptive accounts of each ediface. 2 volumes. London : J. Weale, 2nd edition greatly enlarged, 1838
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore.’West front of Rouen Cathedral’. London and Dublin Orthodox Journal of Useful Knowledge 17 February 1838 pp. 97-99
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. ‘Jube of St. Ouen’. London and Dublin Orthodox Journal of Useful Knowledge 3 March 1838 pp. 129-131
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. ‘Doorway of cloister’. Abbey of St. Wandrille’. London and Dublin Orthodox Journal of Useful Knowledge 13 March 1838 pp. 161-164
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. ‘Fireplace in the Abbey of St. Amand, Rouen’. London and Dublin Orthodox Journal of Useful Knowledge 31 March 1838 pp. 193-196
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. ‘Chasuble of cloth and gold, embroidered, formerly belongong to La Sainte Chapelle de Vie le Comte’. London and Dublin Orthodox Journal of Useful Knowledge 14 April 1838 pp. 225-230
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. A Letter to A. W. Hakewill, In answer to his reflections on the style for rebuilding the Houses of Parliament. London: Ackermann, 1853
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore.’Monumental brasses of the Fifteenth Century’. London and Dublin Orthodox Journal of Useful Knowledge 12 May 1838 pp. 289-292
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. ’West front of St. Lawrence’s Church, Nuremberg’. London and Dublin Orthodox Journal of Useful Knowledge 26 May 1838 pp. 321-323
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. Examples of Gothic architecture : selected from various antient edifices in England: consisting of plans, elevations, sections, and parts at large; calculated to exemplify the various styles, and the practical construction of this admired class of architecture: accompanied by historical and descriptive accounts. 3 volumes. London : Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, second edition, with corrected plates, 1838-40
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. A letter on the proposed Protestant memorial to Cranmer, Ridley, & Latymer, addressed to the subscribers to and promoters of that undertaking : by A. Welby Pugin, Professor of Ecclesiastical Antiquities at St. Mary's College, Oscott. London : Booker & Dolman, 61, New Bond Street, 1839.
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. The present state of ecclesiastical architecture in England. London : Charles Dolman, 61, New Bond Street, 1843.
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. An apology for the revival of Christian architecture in England. London : John Weale, 1843
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. Glossary of ecclesiastical ornament and costume : compiled from ancient authorities and examples. London : Henry G. Bohn, 1844 [London : H.G. Bohn, 2nd revised and enlarged edition, 1846; London: Bernard Quaritch, 3rd revised and enlarged edtion, 1868]
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. Floriated ornament : a series of thirty-one designs. London : Henry G. Bohn, 1849
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. Some remarks on the articles which have recently appeared in the "Rambler", relative to ecclesiastical architecture and decoration. London : Charles Dolman, 1850
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. An address to the inhabitants of Ramsgate. London : Charles Dolman, 1850.
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. An earnest appeal for the revival of the ancient plain song. London : Charles Dolman, 1850.
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. An earnest address on the establishment of the hierarchy. London : Dolman, 1851.
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. A treatise on chancel screens and rood lofts : their antiquity, use, and symbolic signification. London : Dolman, 1851.
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture : set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott. London : Henry G. Bohn, 1853. [Based on a series of articles that originally appeared in the Catholic Weekly Instructor 1, 7, 14 and 21 February 1846]