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| 1836 |
| | | Charles Barry wins the competition to design the new Houses of Parliament | |
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| 1836 |
| | | Pugin publishes his most famous book, Contrasts, a polemical comparison showing the 'present decay of taste' compared to medieval architecture | |
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| 1837 |
| | | Pugin begins work on his first contribution to country house architecture, adding extensive Gothic details to Scarisbrick Hall in Lancashire | |
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| 1837 |
| | | Pugin's begins work on his first major church, St Mary's in Derby | |
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| 1838 |
| | | Pugin designs St Chad's in Birmingham, completed in 1841 and the first cathedral built in England since Christopher Wren's St Paul's | |
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| 1841 |
| | | Pugin publishes The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture | |
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| 1843 |
| | | The frontispiece to Pugin's Revival of Christian Architecture displays three cathedrals and twenty-two other religious buildings designed by him | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Pugin begins building a house for his family, now known as The Grange, at Ramsgate | |
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| 1844 |
| | | Pugin publishes a spectacular volume of scholarly text and lavish illustrations, his Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume | |
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| 1844 |
| | | Pugin's second wife, Louisa, mother of five of his children, dies | |
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