Chronological Gazetteer of the works of E.W. Pugin

By GJ Hyland – 11 March 2010          This article is undergoing continual refinement, and is updated periodically.

MISCELLANEOUS ECCLESIASTICAL AND RELATED BUILDINGS

The most outstanding work in this category is the conversion of the ruined Mediaeval Synodal Hall of the former Archiepiscopal Palace at Mayfield, E. Sussex into a convent chapel for the nuns of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus.

Another sizable piece of work is that at Bishop Eton (Redemptorist) monastery outside Liverpool, which includes a 3rd storey (within a mansard roof, similar to that added to Garendon Hall 6 years later), and an impressive clock-tower.

Figs. 72a, b, c • Conversion of the Mayfield Synodal Hall into a chapel; a) the exterior as projected; b) the exterior as realised; c) the interior of the chapel (pre-1950s) (Courtesy Society of the Holy Child Jesus)

MISCELLANEOUS SECULAR BUILDINGS

Fig. 73 • The clock-tower at Bishop Eton Monastery, showing the pyramidal louvered roof (Private Collection)

The most important commission in this category was at Garendon Hall, near Shepshed, Leics. for Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps de Lisle, which included the addition of an extra storey within a mansard roof (Fig.74a), the creation of a 100ft picture gallery 2 storeys high within the original building, a remodelling of the Front Hall (Fig.74b), and a completely new range to the rear of the original building to accommodate a dining room with a domestic chapel above. 

Perhaps the quaintest of EW Pugin's miscellaneous secular works is a laboratory in Gothic style at Ushaw College (Fig.74c), whilst the most antique in appearance is a 'Mediaeval' monument in memory of Lieut. Everard Aloysius Lisle March Phillipps, VC (Fig.74d), which was built by public subscription in Charnwood Forest, Leics.

Figs. 74a, b, c, d • Garendon Hall, near Shepshed, showing a) the remodelled façade, showing the new mansard roof, b) the Front Hall (By courtesy of Marjorie Schultz & Jim Mathews), c) Chemical Laboratory at Ushaw College, Durham (see below) (© Durham County Council, with permission); d) Lieut. Everard March Phillipps's Monument, Charnwood Forest (Whitwick Historical Group)

Foremost amongst EW Pugin's unrealised secular commissions are his projected Gothic rebuild (Fig.75a) of the S. front of Garendon Hall (Fig.74a), near Shepshed, Leics, and his grandiose scheme (Fig.75b) at Carlton Towers, Selby, N. Yorks., comprising a massive Keep, Baronial Hall, & Chapel.

Figs. 75a, b • a) Garendon Hall, near Shepshed, showing the projected Gothic rebuild of the exterior for Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps de Lisle (By courtesy of Squire de Lisle); b) Carlton Towers, Selby, showing the 3 unrealised elements (to the RHS of the picture) of EW Pugin's projected grandiose scheme for Lord Beaumont (The Building News, 20 Feb, 1874)

REALISED ECCLESIASTICAL DESIGNS/WORKS

• 1852:with JH Powell: Alton, Staffs. - Furnishing & decoration of the chapel at The Towers: for the funeral of John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury; includes an elaborate chapelle ardente.  
• 1853: Ramsgate, Kent - Designs AWN Pugin's tomb-chest & the tiled floor in the Pugin Chantry in St. Augustine's Church. 
• 1854: Birmingham, W. Midlands - Minor works at St. Chad's Cathedral: includes re-siting of the Rood Screen further west to create a longer chancel for the choir (formerly in the W. gallery), an upper sacristy on the S. side of the chancel to accommodate the organ upon its removal from the W. gallery, and the replacement of AWN Pugin's (Sarum Rite) sedilia by a canopied Choir Stall for the Bishop.
• 1854: Killarney, Co Kerry, Ireland - High Altar, reredos & tabernacle in AWN Pugin's Cathedral of St Mary: now removed.
• 1854: Chirk, Clwyd, N. Wales - Work on the chapel at Chirk Castle (for Col. R Myddelton-Biddulph): includes a new E. window (now replaced).
• 1856: Birmingham, W. Midlands - Completion of the SW. spire at St Chad's Cathedral. 
• 1856: Aston-by-Stone, Staffs. - Renovation of the Church of Holy Michael, Archangel: this church of 1847-49 was demolished in 1880 and replaced in 1882; see also Ashton-by-Stone, Lady Chapel and Presbytery for this church.
  
• 1856: Birr, Co. Offaly, Ireland - St John's Convent (Sisters of Mercy): W. wing (including a turret & bell tower) erected, completing AWN Pugin's quadrangle of buildings of 1846; the convent was sold in 1996, and since 2006 the chapel has been converted into a public library, the convent buildings being used as civic offices.
  
• 1857: Ware, Herts. - Modfications of AWN Pugin's St Thomas Chapel (now the Griffiths Chantry) in St Edmund's College Chapel: includes new altar and reredos.
• 1857-58: Childwall, Liverpool, Merseyside - Extension at Bishop Eton Monastery (CSsR): attached to the Monastery Church. The work includes a third storey within a dormered mansard roof (similar to Fig.74a), and a prominent clock-tower whose pyramidial roof is divided into two stages by louvers - see Fig. 73.
  
• 1858: Sclerder, Nr. Looe, Cornwall - Extensions & conventual adaptations to (AWN Pugin's?) Chapel of 1843 (OFM Recollects): the Franciscans stayed only until 1864 - see M Egan, TP Vol. iii(ii), 41-43, 2005.
• 1859: Liverpool, Merseyside - Lays out Ford Cemetery: the adjoining lodge was demolished in 1961 on account of road widening - see also Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre. 
• 1859 -61: Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland - Convent (Sisters of Mercy): a 3 storey addition to an existing building incorporating a chapel on the 3rd floor, community room & dining room; the buildings survive, but the Community now occupies a modern convent elsewhere. 
• c.1860: Charnwood Forest, Leics. - Extension & alterations to the Chapter House at Mount St Bernard's Abbey (OCSO - Cistercians): the Chapter House (octagonal, with matching conical roof) is a larger replacement of AWN Pugin's original. The Guest House bell-cote is very similar to that at AWN Pugin's St Marie's Grange, near Salisbury. 
• 1860s: Burnley, Lancs. - High Altar (& reredos) in St Mary's RC church: erected through the munificence of Messrs Richard Eastwood & Culshaw - now removed. Eastwood's contribution came from the prize money of his mare Butterfly that won the 'Oaks' in 1860 - a similar circumstance to that at Dunsop Bridge. 
  
• 1861 (27 Oct) Liverpool, Merseyside - Fittings in the Side Chapel in AWN Pugin's church of St Mary (Benedictines): inauguration. Comprises altar, reredos and tomb-chest (carved by EE Geflowski of Liverpool) of the Rector of the original church between 1850-60 (Dom Joseph Sheridan, OSB). The church was dismantled stone by stone and rebuilt at a new site in 1885 by Pugin & Pugin, but was totally destroyed by bombing in WWII. A new church designed by Weightman & Bullen was opened in 1953; it closed in 2000, & was demolished in 2001.
  
• 1861: Durham, DH7 9RH, Co. Durham - Marsland Tomb in Ushaw College Cemetery. 
• 1861-62: Mount Vernon, Liverpool, Merseyside - Novitiate wing and other miscellaneous work at AWN Pugin's (1841-43) Convent of St Ethelburga (Sisters of Mercy): closed 1968, and demolished 1969.
  
• 1862: Ripon, N. Yorks. - High Altar & reredos in St Wilfrid's RC Church: carved by W Farmer.
  
• 1862: Ramsgate, Kent - Installs screen & tiled floor in the Lady Chapel of St Augustine's Church. 
• 1863: Greenwich, London - Marble tomb-chest for Canon R North (1800-1860) in Our Ladye, Star of the Sea church: sculpted by W Farmer. North was the Founder of the church (by WW Wardell, 1851).
• 1863: Ramsgate, Kent - An oriel window installed at St Edward's: St Edward's was the original presbytery of St Augustine's Church, prior to the building of St Augustine's Abbey. 
• 1864-65: Mayfield, Sussex - Conversion of the (ruined) Mediæval Synodal Hall of the former Archiepiscopal Palace into a chapel for the Convent of the Holy Child Jesus (dedication: the Sacred Heart): property (and adjacent farm) given by the Dowager Duchess of Leeds in 1863. Projected tower over the porch remains unbuilt. Metalwork by Hardman & Co; High Altar (1880), reredos (1881) & flanking niched statues of Our Lady & St Joseph (1882) by PP Pugin, all sculpted by RL Boulton - removed c.1950/1; and the screen somewhat earlier. Restoration of other parts of the Palace for use as conventual buildings (1872-72) is not by EW Pugin, but by G Goldie. Associated school buildings by Pugin & Pugin, 1896. The chapel is now part of St Leonards-Mayfield School for Girls.
• 1864-65: Hales Place (for Miss MBF Hales), Canterbury, Kent - Metalwork & stained glass designs: stained glass was for windows of the domestic chapel; house demolished 1928 - see also Hales Place Carmelite Convent Church and Carmelite Convent and Farm. 
• 1866: Margate, Kent - Alterations & repairs at Ss Austin and Gregory's Church (of
  
• 1820). 1867 (with GC Ashlin): Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland - Altar to St Joseph in St Mary's Church: removed in the 1990s.
• 1867 (with GC Ashlin): Fore, Co. Westmeath, Ireland - Restoration work at the Greville/Nugent Mausoleum (for Lady Rosa Greville): used by the Nugent family since 1680, and incorporates the tower (c.1500) of the former church of St Feichin. EW Pugin's restoration includes re-facing, re-roofing & crenellated boundary wall; windows similar to Edermine.
• 1867: Darlington, Co Durham - Monument to Bishop Wm Hogarth: in the West Cemetery. A granite octagonal obelisk (surmounted by a gilt Cross) rising from a stone base, and reaching 31ft. Hogarth was the first Bishop of the Diocese of Hexham, but lived in Darlington.
• 1869-70: Kensal Green, London - Tomb of Cardinal Wiseman in Kensal Green Catholic Cemetery: removed to Westminster Cathedral in 1907.
• 1872: Scarisbrick, Lancs. - Coffin for Lady Scarisbrick.
• 1873: Shepshed, Leics. - Conversion of the Temple of Vesta (Venus) into a chapel (for Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps de Lisle): in Garendon Park; done for a visit by Cardinal Manning; the structure still exists, but is no longer a chapel.
• nd: Ramsgate, Kent - Mural designs in St Mary's (High Anglican) Church, Chapel Place: later altered somewhat to tone in with some new mural by Alexander Gibbs (stained glass artist and decorator); now demolished.

           UNCORROBORATED

• 1853: Ware, Herts. - Modification of Choir Stalls in AWN Pugin's St Edmund's College Chapel: work done prior to the dedication of the chapel on 19 May 1853.
• 1854: Macclesfield, Ches. - Pulpit in AWN Pugin's St Alban's: this is attributed to EW Pugin in Stanton, Pugin, Thames & Hudson, London, 1971.
• 1859: Boreham, Chelmsford, Essex - Altar & reredos at the chapel of New Hall Convent (Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre): removed during the 1970s.
• 1860: Longworth (Nr. Bartestree), Herefords. - Restoration of the pre-reformation (Phillips Estate) chapel for Catholic worship: includes the provision of altar & possibly a presbytery.
• 1865: Woolton, Liverpool, Merseyside - Reredoses in St Mary's RC Church: see also the presbytery.
  
• 1871: Charnwood Forest, Leics - Clock-tower at Mount St Bernard Abbey.
• nd: Greenwich, London - Miscellaneous works in Our Ladye, Star of the Sea church: additional to marble tomb-chest in this church.
• nd: Waterford, Ireland - Completion of Convent and Provision of Fittings within (Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary): convent originally by AWN Pugin, 1841-48; fittings include a fireplace of 1856.

COMMISSIONS/WORKS NOTIFIED IN CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURAL JOURNALS AND ELSEWHERE, WHICH WERE EITHER ERRONEOUSLY ATTRIBUTED, OR FOR WHICH NO EVIDENCE OF EXECUTION HAS YET BEEN FOUND

• 1864: Hales Place, Canterbury - Byzantine rebuild of the domestic chapel: for Miss MBF Hales.
• 1869-70: Bartestree, Herefords. - Re-assembly of Longworth Chapel & presbytery: dismantled at its original location at Old Longworth, and re-assembled here on the site of the Convent of Our Lady of Charity & Refuge; it was positioned so as to act as a N. transept (from where the public could hear Mass) to Bucknall's adjoining chapel of St Anne with which it interconnected. The bell-cote/flèche of c.1863 was not included in the re-assembly; stained glass & statuary by Hardman & Co. Recent research strongly suggests that the work was superintended by Wm Chick, a local builder/architect.
• 1870: Woolwich, London - Presbytery extension at St Peter's Church: recent research (A. Saint, TP Vol. iv(ii), 111-121, 2010) has established that the architect was John Crawley.

REALISED SECULAR DESIGNS

• 1852-56: Alton, Staffs. - Minor works at the Hospital of St John the Baptist: completion of AWN Pugin's buildings. 
• 1853-69: Alton, Staffs - Ongoing additions/alterations at The Towers: includes the Great Dining Room, the New Rooms (together with their fittings), the Staircase, and fittings in the Chapel.
• 1854: Chirk, Clwyd, N. Wales - Additions/alterations at Chirk Castle (for Col. R Myddelton-Biddulph): includes new housing for the bell at the top of the clock-tower on the W. wall of the court, two conically-roofed turrets connected by a crenellated wall to the S. side of the castle, and re-facing of the stables.
• 1854-56: Durham, Co Durham, DH7 9RH - Laundry, laboratories and offices at Ushaw College: in the NE corner of the site; the laboratory is now used as a toilet block.
• 1855-56: Durham, DH7 9RH, Co. Durham - Decorates and furnishes the Professors' Parlour in Ushaw College: includes X-frame chairs.
• 1856: Durham, Co Durham, DH7 9RH - Lodge House at Ushaw College: later used as a Post/Telegraph Office.
• 1856-58: Durham, DH7 9RH, Co. Durham - Museum, Procurator's office & apartments, and stair-cased entrance at Ushaw College: the museum 174ft long (with dormitories above), together with a small cloister, connect Ushaw College to St Aloysius' Schools (Junior House); the adjoining Procurator's rooms are housed in an elegant 3 storey building. The stair-cased entrance (in the centre of the W. side of the Quadrangle) replaces the original (on the other side of the W. range), which was lost when the museum was built.
• 1857: Albury, Surrey - Work at Albury Park (for H Drummond): completion (according to the original designs) of AWN Pugin's work.
• 1858-59: Durham, DH7 9RH, Co. Durham - Kitchens at Ushaw College: remodelling of the original installations of 1837.
• 1860-61: Ramsgate, Kent - First stage of additions & alterations at The Grange. 
• 1862-63: Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake, Leics. - Study range at Ratcliffe College (Institute of Charity, Rosminians): a continuation and completion of earlier work by AWN Pugin. 
• 1863-64: Charnwood Forest, Leics. - Monument in memory of Lieut. Everard Aloysius Lisle March Phillipps VC: in Cademan Wood, near to Temple Hill, paid for by public subscription. It consisted of a tower about 80ft high (redolent of the Water Bastion in Delhi), accessed by an internal spiral staircase, and constructed to look mediæval; the tower was originally surmounted by a flag-staff. Now demolished. March Phillips was killed in Delhi in the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
• 1864-65: near Shepshed, Leics. - Internal alterations at Garendon Hall (for Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps de Lisle): included an additional floor within a mansard roof (as prefigured at Childwall (Fig.73), remodelling of the Front Hall, the conversion of part of the interior into a 100 ft long, 2-storey Picture Gallery, and a new wing to the rear of the property accommodating a dining room with a domestic chapel above. The house was demolished in 1964.
• 1866: Childwall, Liverpool, Merseyside - Extension/alterations to AWN Pugin's Oswaldcroft House (for Henry Sharples) of 1844-47: now St Joseph's Care Home, run by Nugent Care.
• 1867: Clehonger, Herefords. - Extensive re-modelling at Belmont House (for F Wegg-Prosser, MP, FRAS): includes the provision of a domestic chapel.
• 1868: with GC Ashlin: Dublin, Ireland - Lays out part of Mountjoy Estate: a site for building of about nine acres.
• 1868: Durham, DH7 9RH, Co. Durham - Extension and re-flooring of the refectory, Ushaw College: the new floor is laid with white Sicilian and black Galway marble.
• 1870(21 Mar)-1871(26 Jul): Ramsgate, Kent - Extensive enlargement of St Augustine's Abbey School (Benedictines): the core of which was formerly known as St Gregory's; became St. Augustine's Abbey School in 1867. The extension (which included a 3rd storey) was towards the rear of the original 2-storey house; the entire building was demolished in 1973
• c.1870-72: Ramsgate, Kent - Second stage of additions & alterations at The Grange: most likely includes also the 'studio' addition (with independent external access) to the rear of St Edward's (the former presbytery).
• 1873-74/75: Selby, N. Yorks. - Work at Carlton Towers (for Henry Stapleton - 9th Lord Beaumont): EW Pugin re-faced the existing (18th century) house with cement to resemble stone, and added three towers, turrets, a flight of steps leading to a front entrance porch, gargoyles, battlements and innumerable coats of arms. Interiors by JF Bentley, dating from 1875.

           UNCORROBORATED

• 1854: Chirk, Clwyd, N. Wales - Further Work at Chirk Castle: includes the porch in the N. wing & completion of two rooms commenced by AWN Pugin, and work on the roof of the chapel.
• 1856: Charley, Leics. - Abbey Lodge: for Mount St Bernard Abbey.
• 1869: Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Ireland - Remodelling of Enniscorthy Castle (for Isaac Newton Wallop - 5th Earl of Portsmouth): it is possible that Ashlin alone was involved in the execution of this work (one of their few domestic projects), although involvement of EW Pugin prior to the dissolution of his partnership with Ashlin at the end of 1868 cannot be ruled out.
• nd: Oscott, W. Midlands - Fireplace overmantle in the Professors' Dining Room at St Mary's College. nd: Chirk, Clwyd, N.Wales - Additional wing to the Girls' School: possibly done whilst EW Pugin was working at Chirk Castle during 1854. The school (originally part of the Chirk Castle Estate) was converted for use as a school by AWN Pugin, and opened in 1847.

UNREALISED SECULAR WORK

• 1854/1856-68: Bakewell, Derbys. - Burton Closes (for W. Allcard): additions to existing house (originally by Paxton, but altered & decorated by AWN Pugin, 1846-48). Liverpool architect TD Barry (see Appendix I under Murray) was also involved. House was partly demolished in 1888 and 1949, and is now a residential home. 
• 1861-62: Oscott, W. Midlands - Academic Exhibition (Northcote) Hall at St Mary's College: drawing exhibited at Royal Academy in May 1861, but plans date from 1860. Building began in 1861 on the site of the former N. cloister, but ceased at 1st floor level in 1862; the project was completed in 1880 by PP Pugin (to his own design). Rev J Spencer Northcote was Rector of the College, 1860-77.
• 1863: near Shepshed, Leics. - Extensive work at Garandon Hall (for Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps de Lisle): included a Gothic façade (Fig.75a) to the S. front (replacing the classical portico shown in Fig.74a), new State Entrance on the W. side leading into a Great Hall (as a new W. wing) and interconnecting with an unrealised chapel lying to the N. of the projected Great Hall.
• 1873-5: Work at Carlton Towers (for Henry Stapleton - 9th Lord Beaumont): the projected massive Keep (containing the Grand Staircase), Baronial Hall & Chapel were never built, owing to lack of funds (and possibly to disagreements between EW Pugin and Lord Beaumont) - see also work accomplished at Carlton Towers.

COMMISSIONS/WORKS NOTIFIED IN CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURAL JOURNALS AND ELSEWHERE, WHICH WERE EITHER ERRONEOUSLY ATTRIBUTED, OR FOR WHICH NO EVIDENCE OF EXECUTION HAS YET BEEN FOUND

• 1865: Dublin, Ireland - O'Connell Memorial: built to the design of John Henry Foley. 
• nd: Nice (France) - Monument: in memory of a Mrs Lamb; no record yet been found.