TRUE PRINCIPLES vol.1 no.3

1) An Unscheduled Visit to Abney Hall

John Purkis takes us on a trip round a Mancunian residence with Puginian associations and shows, incidentally, what may be achieved (in terms of visits) by a mention of the Pugin Society.

John Purkis

2) Puginian Expatriate Extraordinary
Sir John Sutton, Bart (1820�)

The ghostly figure of Sir John Sutton which you see on this page has a particular, and perhaps surprising, relevance to this lively article about a unique Puginian figure.

Mary Dittrich

3) St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate

This pleasantly leisured piece follows on from the extract in our last issue, and is all part of The Catholic Fireside, a turn of the century publication.

Dudley Baxter

4) George Myers

Architects have, in the past, often perhaps received more plaudits than their builders. The partnership of Pugin and Myers, however, was a very special one. Patricia Spencer-Silver explains why.

Patricia Spencer-Silver

5) Pugin's Caroline

In this issue Robin Craig gives us a precision account of the history of the celebrated Caroline, both during and after Pugin's lifetime. What happened to her after 1870? Maybe we shall never know.

Robin Craig

6) The Death of AWN Pugin

In this perceptive and sensitive article the Revd. David Meara discusses the ill-health and psychological problems which dogged Pugin throughout his life.

David Meara

7) The Expedition to Cheadle

A few comments from Michael Blaker on the Society's never-to-be-forgotten trip to Cheadle.

Michael Blaker

8) St Augustine's, Ramsgate, as a Kentish church

Lecture given in Ramsgate in 1996 [published separately from True Principles]

John Hardman Powell, Pugin's only pupil and husband of his eldest daughter, in his delightful memoir Pugin in his home roundly declares: 'St Augustine's is a thorough Thanet church, a natural growth of the locality'. We all, I am sure, feel this to be true, even if we cannot come up with any very explicit reason beyond the one that Powell himself mentions, that it is faced with flint, a material which occurs naturally in the chalk substructure of the Island, and indeed is readily visible in its cliffs. Today I want to examine St Augustine's as a 'thorough Thanet church' not only in physical terms, but also in what for Pugin himself may have been spiritual terms also.

John Newman