Pugin Sources

• Pugin’s Major Publications
• Books, Articles and Catalogues about Pugin and his work

Brian Andrews, Creating a Gothic Paradise: Pugin at the Antipodes, Hobart, 2002.

Paul Atterbury, Clive Wainwright (eds), Pugin: a Gothic Passion, New Haven and London, 1994.

Paul Atterbury (ed), A.W.N. Pugin: Master of Gothic Revival, New Haven and London, 1995.

Margaret Belcher, A.W.N. Pugin: an annotated critical bibliography, London and New York, 1987.

Margaret Belcher, The Collected Letters of A.W.N. Pugin; Volume 1: 1830-1842, Oxford, 2001.

Margaret Belcher, The Collected Letters of A.W.N. Pugin; Volume 2: 1843-1845, Oxford, 2003.

Margaret Belcher, The Collected Letters of A.W.N. Pugin; Volume 3: 1846-1848, Oxford, 2009.

Margaret Belcher, The Collected Letters of A.W.N. Pugin; Volume 4: 1849-1850, Oxford, 2012.

Benjamin Ferrey, Recollections of A.W.N. Pugin and his father Augustus Pugin (London, 1861), with introduction and index by Clive and Jane Wainwright, London, 1978.

Michael Fisher, Hardman of Birmingham: goldsmith and glass-painter, Landmark Publishing, Ashbourne, 2008.

Michael Fisher, Gothic for Ever: A.W.N. Pugin, Lord Shrewsbury and the Rebuilding of Catholic England, Reading, 2012.

Michael Fisher, Pugin-Land: A.W.N. Pugin, Lord Shrewsbury and the Gothic Revival in Staffordshire, Michael J. Fisher Publishing, Stafford, 2002.

D. Gwynn, Lord Shrewsbury, Pugin and the Gothic Revival, London, 1946.

Rosemary Hill, ‘Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin: A Biographical Sketch’, in A.W.N. Pugin: Master of Gothic Revival, New Haven and London, 1995.

Rosemary Hill, Pugin and Ramsgate, Ramsgate, 1999.

Rosemary Hill, ‘Pugin and Ruskin’, in The British Art Journal, vol ii no 3, London, Spring / Summer 2001.

Rosemary Hill, God's Architect - Pugin & the building of romantic Britain, Allen Lane, 2008.

G.J. Hyland, The Architectural Works of A.W.N. Pugin: A Catalogue, Spire Books Ltd, Reading, 2014.

David Frazer Lewis, A W N Pugin, The Victorian Society, 2021.

Jules Lubbock, ‘Pugin: Preaching Design’, in Jules Lubbock (ed), The Tyranny of Taste: The Politics of Architecture and Design in Britain, 1550-1960, New Haven and London, 1995, pp 233-247.

David Meara, A.W.N. Pugin and the Revival of Memorial Brasses, Mansell, London, 1991.

Charles Nicholson, ‘Welby Pugin: A Comment’, Architectural Review, vol iv (1898), p 265.

Roderick O'Donnell, The Pugins and the Catholic Midlands, Gracewing, Leominster, 2002.

Nikolaus Pevsner, ‘A short Pugin Florilegium’, Architectural Review, vol xciv (1943).

Henry E. G. Rope, Pugin, Ditchling, 1935.

Andrew Saint, ‘The Fate of Pugin’s True Principles’, in Paul Atterbury, Clive Wainwright (eds), Pugin: a Gothic Passion, New Haven and London, 1994.

Andrew Saint, ‘Pugin’s Architecture in Context’, in Paul Atterbury (ed), A.W.N. Pugin: Master of Gothic Revival, New Haven and London, 1995.

Stanley Shepherd, The Stained Glass of A.W.N. Pugin, Spire Books Ltd, Reading, 2009.

Harry E. G. Sirr, ’Augustus Welby Pugin: a sketch’, Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, vol xxv, no 10 (August 1918), pp 214-226.

Patricia Spencer-Silver, Pugin’s Builder: Life and Work of George Myers, Hull, 1993.

Phoebe Stanton, Welby Pugin and the Gothic Revival (PhD Thesis), University of London, 1950.

Phoebe Stanton, ‘Pugin at Twenty-One’, Architectural Review, vol cx (1951), pp 187-90.

Phoebe Stanton, ‘Some Comments on the Life and Work of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin’, Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, vol lx, no 2 (December 1952), pp 47-54.

Phoebe Stanton, ‘Pugin: Principles of Design versus Revivalism’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (of America), vol xiii, no 3 (October 1954), pp 20-25.

Phoebe Stanton, ‘The Sources of Pugin’s Contrasts’, in John Summerson (ed), Concerning Architecture, London, 1968, pp 120-39.

Phoebe Stanton, Pugin, London, 1971.

Michael Trappes-Lomax, Pugin: a mediaeval Victorian, London, 1932.

Clive Wainwright, ‘A.W.N. Pugin and France’, in Paul Atterbury (ed), A.W.N. Pugin: Master of Gothic Revival, New Haven and London, 1995.

Clive Wainwright, ‘A. W. N. Pugin and the Progress of Design as Applied to Manufacture’, in Paul Atterbury (ed), A.W.N. Pugin: Master of Gothic Revival, New Haven and London, 1995.

David Watkin, Morality and Architecture, Oxford, 1977.

Paul Waterhouse, ‘Life and Work of Welby Pugin’, Architectural Review, vol iii (1897-8), pp 167-175; 211-221; 264-273; vol iv (1898), pp 23-27; 67-73; 115-118; 159-165.

Paul Waterhouse, ‘Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin’, Dictionary of National Biography.

Alexandra Wedgwood, Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, The Pugin Family, London, 1977.

Alexandra Wedgwood, Catalogue of Drawings in the Victoria & Albert Museum, A.W.N. Pugin and the Pugin Family, London, 1985.

Alexandra Wedgwood (ed), ‘Pugin in his home’, A memoir by J.H. Powell, Architectural History, Volume 31, 1988, pp 171-205.

Alexandra Wedgwood, ‘Domestic Architecture’, in Paul Atterbury, Clive Wainwright (eds), Pugin: a Gothic Passion, New Haven and London, 1994.

Alexandra Wedgwood, ‘A. W. Pugin’s Tours in Northern Europe’, in Gothic Revival, Religion, Architecture and Style in Western Europe 1815-1914, Proceedings of the Leuven Colloquium, 7-10 November 1997, Jan de Meyer and Luc Verpoest, Leuven, 2000.

• Rosemary Hill: Bibliography
• Books and Articles about Pugin’s buildings
• Books about Victorian architecture which mention Pugin
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• Pugin Foundation of Australia Resources