Garendon Hall
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Garendon Hall was a country home near Shepshed, Leicestershire, England. It was demolished in 1964.
Garendon Hall c. 1890. Showing the 18th-century Classical style house, with the "rather horrible" 19th-century Gothic mansard roof.
Augustus Pugin's unexecuted design for Garendon Hall
Temple of Venus
The Obelisk
Augustus Pugin
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Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin was an English architect, designer, artist and critic with French and Swiss origins. He is principally remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival style of
Garendon Hall
…Charles Lisle March Phillipps De Lisle (1809–1878). Ambrose was an enthusiast for the Gothic Revival and planned to demolish the hall; commissioning Augustus Pugin (famous for his work on the Houses of Parliament) to design a replacement. Ambrose's finances were in decline, however, and the work could not be…
Portrait, c. 1840
The Grange, Ramsgate, Thanet, Kent, England, designed by Pugin as his family home
St Chad's Cathedral in Birmingham, England
The northeast chapel of St Giles' Catholic Church, Cheadle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England, designed by Pugin