TRUE PRINCIPLES vol.2 no.5

1) SESQUICENTENIAL ROUNDUP

Pugin Commemorations in the Midlands

Michael Fisher brings members news of the multifarious happenings during 2002 in Staffordshire and Birmingham.

Pugin in the Antipodes - and we went too!

David Houle, husband of our President Sarah Houle, Pugin's great-great-granddaughter, reports on the epic visit down under, in Part One of our Australian coverage.

Pugin in the Antipodes - and we went too! Part Two

Sandra Wedgwood takes up the tale...

Ramsgate Remembers

An account from the Pugin heartlands by your Thanet reporter

2) Some Stray Notes On Art (3)

In this article we finally bid a regretful goodbye to John Hardman Powell, who now leads his students on an exciting and inspiring climb to the very summit of their studies ‚ 'Art Theoretic'. As before, the text has been somewhat reduced in length, and punctuation and spelling, etc, are Powell's own.

3) A Forgotten Episode in the History of St Augustine's, Ramsgate

Peter Howell helps to fill in what was perhaps a grey area in our knowledge of these key buildings.

4) The Hardman Legacy

Sister Barbara Jeffery recounts the life and good deeds in Birmingham of members of the Hardman family.

5) Pugin: A Godly Man?

Pugin? A saint? Following on from his introductory piece in our last True Principles, Jim Thunder makes out an impassioned case in defence of his great-great- grandfather's perhaps unconventional, yet no less convincing, credentials for possible canonization. Note: All references, unless as numbered below, are from J.H. Powell, 'Pugin in his home', 1889, edited by Alexandra Wedgwood and republished in Architectural History, vol. 31,1988, reprinted in 1994.

6) A Pugin Link with New Zealand ‚ The Benedictine Bishop

Nick Beveridge closes the Gothic gap between Ramsgate and Auckland, in an unexpected and interesting manner.

7) Scarisbrick Hall

A recently discovered series of nineteenth-century photographs sheds fresh light on the complicated history of Scarisbrick Hall, Lancashire, a house on which both A.W.N. and E.WW. Pugin worked. Rosemary Hill discusses a selection of the pictures, published here for the first time. They are albumen prints of c1872‚3. The photographer's identity is, at present, unknown. For information regarding the present condition of the Hall, see 'Buildings at Risk', on page 41.

8) Some Little-Known Pugin Houses

Reportage from Timothy Brittain-Catlin keeps us au fait with some of the latest Pugin discoveries.

9) The Significance of Architectural Style at Mount St Bernard Abbey

Brian Andrews describes the reasons behind Pugin's approach to design at this most important Leicestershire Monastery