By the Rev. W. A. Wickham: 28th November 1907 Perhaps no man set so deep a mark, directly and indirectly, upon the English church architecture of the nineteenth century as Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, of whom Dean Stanley spoke as “that splendid, if eccentric, genius, who gave himself, though not with undivided love, to the service of another Communion” (qu. Scott, Recollections, p. 390). Ruskin, indeed, sneered at Pugin’s genius, and spoke of him (Stones of Venice, Append. 12; qu. Ferrey, Recollections, p. 164) as “one of the smallest possible…
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