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By Pugin

There are three key publications by Augustus Pugin in which he set out his views on architecture. These are:

Contrasts: or, A Parallel Between the Noble Edifices of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, and similar Buildings of the Present Day; showing the Present Decay of Taste: Accompanied by appropriate Text (Salisbury, 1836, 2nd enlarged edition, London, 1841);

The True Principles of Christian or Pointed Architecture (London, 1841); and

The Present State of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England (London, 1843, republished from the Dublin Review, where it first appeared in two parts: Part I in Vol X, May 1841 and Part II in Vol XII, February 1842)

The first two of these, Contrasts and True Principles, have been published as one volume in facsimile by the Pugin Society with Spire Books. Copies are available, price £33.95 per copy, plus £3 postage and packing, from Spire Books Ltd, PO Box 2336, Reading RG4 5WJ.

The third of the above has been published in facsimile under the title Present State of Ecclesiastical Architecture and Some Remarks Relative to Ecclesiastical Architecture and Decoration, editor R O'Donnell (Gracewing, 2004) £12.99
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About Pugin

The following publications are available from the Pugin Society see the society's website for further details.

Pugin in his Home: Two memoirs by John Hardman Powell, edited with an introduction by Alexandra Wedgwood (The Pugin Society, Thanet District Council, 2006) £4

A Flint Seaside Church: St Augustine's Abbey Church, Ramsgate by Libby Horner and Gill Hunter (The Pugin Society, 2000) £5

True Principles journal and Present State newsletter The Pugin Society journal, True Principles, appears once a year. It is edited by Timothy Brittain-Catlin, who featured in the Time Team programme on Pugin. The society also publishes a newsletter, Present State.

Benjamin Ferrey on Pugin

The book by Benjamin Ferrey referred to by The God of Gothic director Brendan Hughes in Time Team in Pugin-land was first published in 1861 as Recollections of A N Welby Pugin and his father Augustus Pugin. The most recent version was published as Recollections of Pugin (Scholar Press, 1978).
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