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| 1812 |
| | | Augustus Welby Pugin is born in London, the son of the architectural illustrator Augustus Charles Pugin | |
|  | Rosemary Hill, God's Architect, Penguin 2007
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| 1827 |
| | | The 15-year-old Pugin designs furniture, still in place today, for royal apartments in Windsor Castle | |
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| 1829 |
| | | Pugin joins the staff of Covent Garden as a scene painter, but is soon designing sets and costumes | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Pugin marries Anne Garnett, who dies the following year after giving birth to a daughter, also called Anne | |
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| 1833 |
| | | Pugin marries his second wife, Louisa Burton | |
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| 1834 |
| | | In London a great fire destroys most of the Palace of Westminster, including the two houses of parliament | |
|  | The Houses of Parliament, 1834
Guildhall Library
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| 1835 |
| | | Pugin converts to Roman Catholicism | |
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| 1835 |
| | | The architect Charles Barry employs Pugin to design the Gothic detail required in the competition to build the new House of Parliament | |
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| 1836 |
| | | Charles Barry wins the competition to design the new Houses of Parliament | |
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| 1836 |
| | | Pugin publishes his most famous book, Contrasts, a polemical comparison showing the 'present decay of taste' compared to medieval architecture | |
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| 1837 |
| | | Pugin begins work on his first contribution to country house architecture, adding extensive Gothic details to Scarisbrick Hall in Lancashire | |
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| 1837 |
| | | Pugin's begins work on his first major church, St Mary's in Derby | |
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| 1838 |
| | | Pugin designs St Chad's in Birmingham, completed in 1841 and the first cathedral built in England since Christopher Wren's St Paul's | |
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| 1841 |
| | | Pugin publishes The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture | |
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| 1843 |
| | | The frontispiece to Pugin's Revival of Christian Architecture displays three cathedrals and twenty-two other religious buildings designed by him | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Pugin begins building a house for his family, now known as The Grange, at Ramsgate | |
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| 1844 |
| | | Pugin publishes a spectacular volume of scholarly text and lavish illustrations, his Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume | |
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| 1844 |
| | | Pugin's second wife, Louisa, mother of five of his children, dies | |
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| 1845 |
| | | Pugin begins building, next to his own house, the Roman Catholic church of St Augustine, reached through a cloister | |
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| 1846 |
| | | Pugin completes his most spectacularly decorated church, that of St Giles in Cheadle, Staffordshire | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Barry's new House of Lords is opened, with lavishly beautiful interiors and furnishings by Pugin | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Pugin marries his third wife, Jane Knill, with whom he has two more children | |
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| 1851 |
| | | In London's Great Exhibition numerous examples of Pugin's designs and craftsmanship are displayed by different exhibitors | |
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| 1852 |
| | | Pugin does not attend the opening of the completed Houses of Parliament, and there is hardly a mention of him | |
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| 1852 |
| | | After years of strain and overwork, Pugin has a nervous breakdown and he is certified insane | |
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| 1852 |
| | | Pugin dies, at home in Ramsgate, and is buried in the chantry of the church he is building next door, St Augustine's | |
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| 1858 |
| | | The clock tower at Westminster, designed by Pugin and now commonly known now as Big Ben, is completed | |
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