God's architect
Subtitle: Pugin and the building of romantic Britain
By: Rosemary Hill.
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 601
ISBN-13: 9780713994995
Subjects: Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, -- 1812-1852.; Architects -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Gothic revival (Architecture) -- Great Britain.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Prologue; title: Auguste Charles Pugin; title: Catherine Welby; title: The microcosm of London: 1802-1812; title: Waverly: 1812 to 1821; title: 'My first design': 1821 to 1824; title: Metropolitan improvements: 1824 to 1826; title: The king's pleasure: 1827; title: Beginning the world: October 1827 to July 1831; title: A very short courtship: July 1831 to May 1832; title: 'Gothic for ever': June 1832 to April 1833; title: Beginning the world again: May 1833 to October 1834; title: The new world begun: October 1834 to May 1835; title: Salisbury and Sarum: summer 1835; title: Contrasts: summer 1835 to August 1836; title: Entre deux guerres: autumn 1836; title: Romantic Catholics; title: The professor of ecclesiastical antiquities: 1837; title: 'My first church': July 1837 to May 1838; title: Birmingham and Oxford: May 1838 to May 1839; title: Young Victorians: May 1839 to February 1840; title: A vision for England: March to December 1840; title: True principles and Tract XC: 1841; title: Reunion and division: 1842; title: A shift in the wind: January to September 1843; title: The Grange, Ramsgate: September to December 1843; title: A return of grief: January to August 1844; title: The new house and the new palace: autumn and winter, 1844; title: The new life: December 1844 to April 1845; title: A battle of wills: May to October 1845; title: Entre deux femmes: October 1845 to June 1846; title: Improving the taste of young England: June 1846 to February 1847; title: The House of Lords: February to autumn 1847; title: Many hands: autumn 1847; title: Helen Lumsdaine: December 1847 to May 1848; title: 'One affectionate heart': May to 10 August 1848; title: 'A first rate Gothic woman': 11 August 1848 to August 1849; title: Design for the middling sort: September 1849 to January 1850; title: The high Victorians: 1850; title: The Great Exhibition: January to October 1851; title: The whole machinery of the clock: October 1851 to February 1852; title: Bethlem and Ramsgate: 26 February to September 1852; title: Epilogue; title: Abbreviations; title: List of works; title: Select bibliography; title: Notes; title: Acknowledgements; title: Index.