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CHRONOLOGICAL GAZETTEER OF THE WORKS OF E.W. PUGIN – ARCHITECT
1834–1875

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K. Unexecuted Designs

Many of EW Pugin's designs remain unrealised, the most ambitious of which are those for three English cathedrals – Shrewsbury [K1] Liverpool [K2] and Birkenhead [K4], and one (with GC Ashlin) in Ireland at Nenagh [K10]. Shrewsbury Cathedral as actually built [A8] is a very reduced version of the original, lacking the projected dominating tower & spire and high clerestory; as noted by M Fisher, the slender proportions and other features of this unexecuted tower-cum-spire closely resemble that designed by B Whelan (a pupil of EW Pugin) as part of his 1871–72 extensions to St Marie's, Rugby [A41].

Of the projected Liverpool cathedral, only the chancel & side-chapels were ever built, which became the church of Our Lady Immaculate [A5].

The idea of a cathedral in Birkenhead arose from the bishop's dissatisfaction with the scaled-down cathedral in Shrewsbury, and his desire for a grander, more cathedralesque building that would also serve as a parish church in Birkenhead – the most populous town in the Diocese of Shrewsbury. Bertram, the 17th Earl of Shrewsbury (1832–1856) offered to meet the cost provided Pugin exercised more restraint than was displayed in his initial design that would have cost more than twice the amount the Earl was prepared to make available. Accordingly, an appeal was made to Rome to change the title of the See from Shrewsbury to Birkenhead, but this was refused. The site of the proposed cathedral was later used for EW Pugin's church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception [A28], which was commenced in 1860.

1	1852: Shrewsbury, Shrops. – Shrewsbury Cathedral: original design partly based on a sketch by AWN Pugin; for as actually executed, see A8.
2	1854: Liverpool, Merseyside – Liverpool Cathedral (St Edward): only the Lady Chapel (dedicated to Our Lady Immaculate – see A5) was built; according to Ref. (xviii), AWN Pugin made plans for a pro-cathedral in Everton in 1845, also dedicated to Our Lady Immaculate.
3	1854: Southwark, London – Talbot Chantry in St. George's Cathedral: begun, but not completed; replaced by a Relics Chapel in 1905.
4	1855: Birkenhead, Merseyside – Birkenhead Cathedral: later redone to a quite different and (much reduced) design as Our Lady's Church [A28].
5	1855: Greenwich, London – Chantry Chapel in Our Ladye, Star of the Sea (W Wardell, 1851): might possibly have been related to the Knill Chantry [C5] in St George's, Southwark.
6	1856 (with J Murray): Nr. Bruges, Belgium – Kasteel van Loppem: original design, predating that with Béthune [G4].
7	pre-1859 (with J Murray): Berkhampstead, Herts. – Market Hall.
8	pre-1859 (with J Murray): Cork, Ireland – Church of Ss Peter & Paul: church built to a later design [A25] with GC Ashlin
9	c.1859 (with J Murray): Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland – Mercy Convent Chapel: see also B(i).
10	1860 (with GC Ashlin): Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland – Cathedral.
11	1860: Tower Hamlets, London – First designs for the German Church (St Boniface), presbytery & school.
12	c.1861: Edinburgh, Scotland – Convent & chapel of St Margaret: see C17.
13	1862: 1862–63: Bartestree, Herefords. – Chapel at the Convent of Our Lady of Charity and Refuge: deemed by Bishop Brown to be too expensive; the existing chapel (of St Anne, c.1865–67) is by B Bucknall (see B9), with High Altar & reredos (now in Chicago, USA) by PP Pugin.
14	1863: Canterbury, Kent – Carmelite Convent at Hales Place: started, but later abandoned.
15	1865: Rome, Italy – Collegiate Church of St. Thomas at the English College.
16	1865: Sutton Coldfield, W. Midlands – Chapel of Ease.
17	1865–69: Birmingham, W. Midlands – St Catherine's Church, Horse Fair: see also E30; church by Dunn & Hansom built 1875.
18	c. 1866: Cotton, Staffs. – Boarding accommodation at St Wilfrid's College.
19	1868 (with GC Ashlin): Stradbally, Co. Waterford, Ireland – Parish Church.
20	1873: Tower Hamlets, London – St Boniface's Church. a second (c.f. K11) submitted design (in German Gothic). A church (in Romanesque style by J Young) with the same dedication was opened in 1875.
21	1873: Farnworth, Lancs. – St Gregory the Great: the building was put out to tender, but the church was built to the design of E Kirby.
22	nd: Southwark, London – St Joseph's Chapel in AWN Pugin's St. George's Cathedral.
23	nd: Adare, Co. Limerick, Ireland – Adare Manor: a commission inherited from AWN Pugin, but EW Pugin was replaced by PC Hardwick.
24	nd: London – Flats: in Victoria Street.
25	nd: Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland – Chapel (with GC Ashlin) at St Patrick's College: the existing chapel is by JJ McCarthy.
26	Items listed in Ref. (xiii), not mentioned above, including two unidentified town churches (one with J Murray), a convent/almshouse complex (possibly G7?), a large institutional building, a reredos, a pulpit and funeral monuments.