TRUE PRINCIPLES vol.2 no.3

1) A.W.N. Pugin and Nodier's Normandy

Timothy Brittain-Catlin gives new and stimulating insight into some hitherto unconsidered influences — architectural, literary and pyschological — on the young Pugin.

Timothy Brittain-Catlin

2) Hardman Metalwork Folios from Birmingham

Roderick O'Donnell describes some remarkable archival material.

A collection of random sheets, removed from their fire-damaged settings when the Hardman & Co works in Newhall Hill, Birmingham was burnt out in 1970, was recently inspected in London. Some of the most interesting to this writer are described and illustrated here; others have been identified and commented on by Lady Wedgwood, for whose insights I am, as usual, most grateful...

Roderick O'Donnell

3) Thomas Larkins Walker
The Chamberlaine Almshouses, Bedworth, Warwickshire

A promising early work by a pupil of Auguste Charles Pugin attracts the attention of Rosemary Hill.

4) J.A. Pippet and Hardman, Powell & Company

William Covington takes a closer look at a hitherto neglected figure.

Almost a century has passed since the death of Joseph Aloysius Pippet (1841-1903). His career as designer and decorator with Hardman, Powell & Company of Birmingham has been, to a great extent, overlooked...

William Covington

5) Some Stray Notes on Art

In this issue we publish part two of John Hardman Powell's second lecture, 'Art Imitative', and join him as he gradually climbs with us — to use his own metaphor — from the foothills of art and craft towards the high peaks, where 'the air is fuller of noble and ascetic thought'. As usual, we would remind readers that grammar, punctuation and spelling are J.H.P's own, and we have also added a few endnotes.

6) Going Full Tilt

Alexandra Wedgwood discusses The Collected Letters of A.W.N.Pugin, volume I, 1830-1842, edited by Margaret Belcher, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0 19817391 1.

7) Society Sorties

Ramsgate: A.W.N.P. Letters Launch

Michael Blaker

London: Pugin and Comper

James Jago recalls a memorable day.

8) Ramsgate Cemetery — A Furious Footnote

Gavin Stamp on contentious matters in Edward Pugin's Ramsgate.