Plaque number 74 can be found at this location.
This plaque can be found on St Osmund's church near the entrance in Exeter Street.
The O/S grid position is SU 14548 East 29503 North.
Salisbury Civic Society
A.W.N. Pugin
1812-1852
Gothic Revivalist designed this church in 1847-8 and converted to Roman Catholicism in Salisbury 1835.
St Osmund's Church.
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, (1812-1852) architect, designer and leading apostle of the Victorian Gothic style, is probably most famous for his collaboration with Sir Charles Barry on the (then) new Houses of Parliament, but he was an amazingly prolific worker. He designed a house for himself (St. Marie's Grange) at Alderbury, and lived there from 1835 to 1837. His time in Salisbury coincided with his conversion to Roman Catholicism, and he subsequently designed the first Catholic church, St Osmund's in Exeter Street, to be built here since the Reformation.
Augustus Pugin - a blue plaque - article by Charles Villiers in Salisbury Civic Society journal - September 2007.
Pugin - Phoebe Stanton - Thames and Hudson 1971
The Pugin Society website
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