TRUE PRINCIPLES vol.1 no.6
1) The Lord Chancellor's Apartment: a personal view
The ceaseless press coverage on the subject of the redecoration of the Lord Chancellor's apartment at the Palace of Westminster has probably given Pugin's name the greatest prominence to the general public that it has ever had, and for this the Pugin Society is very grateful. A great number of important issues, like the use of public money and conservation policies, are involved in this matter, but here I would like to put down something of my understanding of the history of the apartment and my reaction to the results of the recent work...
2) The Grange, Ramsgate
On 14th February 1998, members of The Pugin Society were allowed, by kind permission of the Landmark Trust, to see inside The Grange. Those who attended may have been saddened by the condition of the property, which has suffered many years of neglect. It is to be hoped that the Landmark Trust, as the new owners, can be supported and encouraged in their plans to repair the fabric and convert the house to a Landmark property, so that others can experience this historic and important building for many years to come.
Donald Insall Associates, Architects acting for the Landmark Trust at The Grange.
3) Pugin's Miniatures
David Meara explores a more intimate aspect of A.W.N.P's work
David Meara
4) Ramsgate Cemetery Chapel: Homage to Pugin?
"In ecclesiology... we must raise the cry of Back to Pugin," wrote Dr John Wickham Legg, the liturgiologist, in 1887, "to the principles which Pugin advocated..." And this cry — Back to Pugin — can serve to characterise the direction English architecture took after the experimental High Victorian Gothic phase...
Gavin Stamp
5) St John the Baptist, Melton Mowbray
Graham Hulme and Brian Buchanan discuss a Leicestershire Church with interesting Pugin links
6) "Prest D'accomplir": Pugin and the Earl of Shrewsbury
A unique relationship discussed by Michael Fisher
7) A Remarkable Pugin Tombstone
Brian Andrews, our man in Australia, tells a curious tale...