Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Architecture
- Subcategories: Architects
- Curriculum: 19th Century European History, British History
Article abstract: Pugin wrote treatises promoting the Gothic revival in church architecture and built more than one hundred distinctive buildings during his short career.
Early Life
The only son of a French immigrant architectural illustrator and his Calvinist wife, Catherine Welby, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin was born on March 1, 1812. His father, Augustus Charles Pugin, who was fifty when Augustus was born, and Catherine were educators who ran a school for training architects and illustrators. In England, young Pugin attended class field trips and...
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