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Updated: July 3, 2025
Pugin, the great Gothic architect, designed various noble buildings; but I believe he complained that he never had fair play with his finest, that he was always weighted by considerations of expense, or by the nature of the ground he had to build on, or by the number of people it was essential the building should accommodate.
Besides the manufactures we have enumerated and described, there are many others of more or less importance; and new inventions and the spur of enterprise are creating new manufactures in Birmingham every day. There are manufacturers of steam-engines and other machinery, of stoves, grates, and other iron foundry. Pugin. Another executes stained-glass windows.
Its principal feature is the projecting porch at its door, formed by two rough slabs of Coniston slate, set in a blunt gable; supported, if far projecting, by two larger masses for uprights. A disciple of Mr. Pugin would delightedly observe that the porch of St.
Pugin listened, making little bows, sniffing the lettuce which the mastiff-man had so cunningly placed before his nose. Then honestly and plainly and well, Adams told his tale, and the rabbit held up its hands in horror at the black doings disclosed to it. But it was horror divorced from sentiment.
Among the inhabitants and lodgers have been Shelley and Hazlitt, J. P. Kemble, Speaker Onslow, Pugin the elder, Charles Mathews the elder, and, in later years, Sir E. Burne-Jones. At the west end Great Russell Street runs into Tottenham Court Road, a portion of which lies in the parish of St. Giles.
The Monastery is of fresh-looking Gothic, by Pugin the first of the dynasty: it is reached by the white roads of a limestone country, and backed by a young plantation, and it gathers its group of buildings in a cleft high up among the hills of Wales.
Among them arrived pupils of Pugin, who speedily found Irish hearts to respond to theirs, and Irish purses ready to carry their designs into execution. There is no need of going into details.
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