TRUE PRINCIPLES vol.2 no.2

1) The Grange: Current State of Play

Pugin Society Chairman Nick Dermott gives us a resumÈ of the evolution of The Grange and considers the Landmark Trust's proposals for the alteration and refurbishment of the building and their current planning application to Thanet District Council.

2) Benjamin Ferrey 1810�

Following Anthony Symondson's article on Michael Trappes-Lomax in the last issue of True Principles, Rosemary Hill gives a lively account of Pugin's first and seminal, if controversial, biographer, the architect Benjamin Ferrey.

Rosemary Hill

3) Sampson Kempthorne and the Gothic Revival in New Zealand

John Butler and Renatus Kempthorne tell the interesting story of a sometimes unlucky architect-emigrant.

4) A Pugin Rediscovered?

New uses for a Pugin chantry — here Anthony Barnes develops an interesting theory regarding the sanctuary of the church of All Saints, Santon, in Norfolk.

Anthony Barnes

5) Pugin and Glasgow

An unexpected photographic find prompts Gavin Stamp into reflecting on the clash of architectural principles between Classicists and Goths, as represented respectively by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson and Augustus Pugin.

Gavin Stamp

6) Edward Pugin and the English College in Rome

Carol Richardson describes E.W.Pugin's not altogether happy connection with the building of a new church.

The Venerable English College, or English College at Rome, established as a seminary in 1579 for the training of priests to send back to Protestant England, was part of the cultural landscape of the society into which the Pugin family had entered with the conversion of Augustus Pugin in 1835...

Carol Richardson

7) Some Stray Notes on Art

In part one of the second of John Hardman Powell's lectures to students at Birmingham School of Art he discusses what he calls 'Art Imitative'. He covers much ground, revealing some interesting priorities en route. There are a number of points here which we felt might need further elucidation, so endnotes have been added, and the text has been slightly reduced in length. Punctuation, etc, are Powell's own.

8) Crace Albums at Auction

A report by Rosemary Hill