St. Oswald's by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852)

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St. Oswald's

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852)

1839-42

Liverpool

[now destroyed]

"Here in this tiny suburban Roman Catholic church . . . Pugin first established a new model, almost a new building type, quite discontinuous with Georgian church architecture." -- Henry Russell Hitchcock, quoted by Stanton, p. 23.

Scanned image and text George P. Landow

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References

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Penguin, 1963.

Pugin, A. Welby. The Present State of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England. "Republished from the Dublin Review." London: Charles Dolman, 1843.

Stanton, Phoebe B. The Gothic Revival and American Church Architecture: An Episode in Taste, 1840-1856. Johns Hopkins Studies in Nineteenth-Century Architecture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968.

Last modified 1 July 2001