TRUE PRINCIPLES vol.1 no.7

1) Leicestershire Trip 9󈟜th JULY 1998

Vice-Chairman Judith Crocker reminisces about the Society's annual trip.

Judith Crocker

2) Pugin and Catholic London: An Early Divorce?

We are happy to be publishing the first half of a paper given by Rory O'Donnell to the Pugin Society AGM 25 Octotober 1997 at St George's Cathedral, Southwark. Look out for the second instalment in our next issue.

Rory O'Donnell

3) Pugin in Yorkshire or: Leeds reconsidered

A visit to Leeds by the Hon. Sec. naturally involved visiting Pugin sites there, including the A.W.N.P. reredos in the Lady Chapel of St Anne's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Macduff Derick's St Saviour's (regrettably closed) for the glass, and, spectacularly, the sad shell of Mount St Mary's nearby. Finally, E.W.P.'s Meanwood Towers was (with some difficulty) discovered. What a splendidly grandiose and sumptuous building this must originally have been. According to Conservation Officer Phil Ward of Leeds Department of Planning, the grim history of St Mary's may be going to take a turn for the better. Here are Phil's comments on the Towers and St Mary's.

Phil Ward