Pugin, AUGUSTUS WELBY, architect, was born in London on 1st March 1812, the son of a French architect, Augustin Pugin (1762-1832), in whose office, after schooling at Christ's Hospital, he was trained, chiefly by making drawings for his father's books on Gothic buildings. Whilst working with Sir C. Barry he designed and modelled a large part of the decorations and sculpture for the new Houses of Parliament (1836-37). Early in life he became a convert to Roman Catholicism; and most of his plans were made for churches and other ecclesiastical edifices belonging to that communion, the most successful being perhaps a church at Ramsgate, Killarney Cathedral, Adare Hall in Ireland, and the Benedictine chapel at Douai. He died insane at Ramsgate, on 14th September 1852. He enriched the literature of his profession by Contrasts . . . between the Architecture of the 15th and 19th Centuries (1836), a Treatise on Chancel Screens (1851), and The True Principles of Christian Architecture (1841). See B. Ferrey's Recollections of A. W. Pugin and his Father (1861).
His son, EDWARD WELBY PUGIN (1834-75), succeeded to his father's practice, and was the architect of many Roman Catholic churches, &c.