Peter Paul Pugin
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, son of Augustus Welby Pugin by his third wife Jane Knill. He was the half-brother of architect and designer Edward Welby Pugin.
Peter Paul Pugin was only a year old when his father died. He later began practice as the junior partner in Pugin & Pugin
Pugin & Pugin
Pugin & Pugin was a London-based family firm of ecclesiastical architects, founded in the Westminster office of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin . The firm was succeeded by his sons Cuthbert Welby Pugin and Peter Paul Pugin after the death of their elder brother, Edward Welby Pugin...
, the family architectural firm. The senior partner was his half-brother Edward Welby Pugin.
When Edward Welby Pugin died suddenly on 5 June 1875 as a result of overwork and 'injudicious use of chloral hydrate
Chloral hydrate
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', the main responsibility for the practice passed to Peter Paul Pugin. Although Peter Paul's offices remained in London
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and Liverpool
Liverpool
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, his practice was largely Scottish, and he also maintained an office in Glasgow
Glasgow
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. Although Peter Paul's earlier churches were strongly influenced by his father and brother, by the 1880s he had developed a very recognisable curvilinear Gothic
Gothic architecture
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style, usually in red sandstone with elaborate altarpieces in coloured marbles.
Apart from his own works, Peter Paul Pugin completed several of the works of Edward Welby Pugin after the latter's death, in particular the church of Our Lady Star of the Sea in Workington
Workington
Workington is a town, civil parish and port on the west coast of Cumbria, England, at the mouth of the River Derwent. Lying within the Borough of Allerdale, Workington is southwest of Carlisle, west of Cockermouth, and southwest of Maryport...
, Cumbria. In 1889 Peter Paul Pugin was made a Knight of the Order of St. Sylvester
Order of St. Sylvester
The Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Sylvester Pope and Martyr , sometimes referred to as the Sylvestrine Order, or the Pontifical Order of Pope St Sylvester, is one of five Orders of Knighthood awarded directly by the Pope as Supreme Pontiff and head of the Catholic Church and as the Head of...
, one of the Papal Orders of Chivalry.
Peter Paul Pugin married Agnes, the third daughter of the Catholic builder John Bird of Hammersmith
Hammersmith
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in 1886. They had five children, but none entered the practice. Peter Paul died in Bournemouth
Bournemouth
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in March 1904, the firm being continued by his nephew Sebastian Pugin Powell, born in 1886, the son of John Hardman Powell. Peter Paul Pugin was buried in Ramsgate
Ramsgate
Ramsgate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century and is a member of the ancient confederation of Cinque Ports. It has a population of around 40,000. Ramsgate's main attraction is its coastline and its main...
.