NeilsYard
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16 of 25
Fri 30th Apr 2021 11:07am
Hi Kaga - I know Murray ended his (short) days at his home he designed within Stoneleigh Terrace but don't think EW Pugin ever lived in Coventry did he? |
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Helen F
Warrington |
17 of 25
Fri 30th Apr 2021 11:17am
The pool is there on the 1749 map and is listed as 'the horse pool'. How much older it was I don't know. There looks like a ramp down into the water. Was it for just watering the horses or did they wash/cool them off there too? |
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Helen F
Warrington |
18 of 25
Fri 30th Apr 2021 11:31am
Ah, different Pugin.
Augustus Pugin took inspiration from Coventry but I don't know how long he stayed. His book on carved bargeboards include some of the examples still visible in his day but not all of them. Whether he drew the others, is not obvious. |
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NeilsYard
Coventry Thread starter
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19 of 25
Fri 30th Apr 2021 11:54am
I noted from the excellent (think we've linked before but worth another) Coventry Society article about him, they parted ways, noting 'differences', however he must have thought much of him to return for Murray's far too early funeral. |
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Prof
Gloucester |
20 of 25
Fri 30th Apr 2021 6:44pm
Neil, thanks for this on Murray and Pugin. Much detail there and very informative. Great! |
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex |
21 of 25
Sat 1st May 2021 9:41am
NeilsYard,
It doesn't actually say he lived there, now I've just read it again, but he called the houses on the Kenilworth Road pepper boxes, from their colour. The green extended to open land where Stoneleigh Terrace was. It was enclosed, by law, with wooden railings. In the field by Butts and Warwick Road there were some large elm trees, hit by lightning and killed a man sheltering underneath. The Irishman's path passed through, there were two ponds on the green, one was the red sea for horses drinking, the other held the ducking bucket.
I stayed two nights in a hotel in the terrace, about the third or fourth house from the station end. My friend called to give me a lift to London to a race meeting, he sat down, ate one of my pieces of toast, added some hot water to the teapot, poured himself a cup of tea, and the landlord added tea and toast to my bill.
Greyfriars Green was once Cheylesmore Green, it was outside the city walls. The Manor House, before the enclosure of the city walls, had a moat fed by springs, the crow moat. Water from it ran down a ditch into the Sherbourne. |
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex |
22 of 25
Sun 2nd May 2021 7:50am
A Pugin was the architect that built Big Ben, the largest four-sided clock in the world. He also built part of the Houses of Parliament. |
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Positively Pottering
East Midlands |
23 of 25
Sun 2nd May 2021 11:26am
He also designed this which is known as Pugin's gem, St Giles in Cheadle, where I worship
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Wearethemods
Aberdeenshire |
24 of 25
Sun 2nd May 2021 11:32am
On 2nd May 2021 7:50am, Kaga simpson said:
A Pugin was the architect that built Big Ben, the largest four-sided clock in the world. He also built part of the Houses of Parliament.
Off topic.
Actually, Big Ben is the name of the bell, Kaga, and the largest four-sided clock in the world is the Duquesne Brewery Clock in Pittsburgh, USA. The largest public clock in the UK is situated at the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool. |
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex |
25 of 25
Mon 3rd May 2021 9:34am
Wearethemods,
Correction, we were talking about A Pugin in Victorian times. He was asked to design a building to hold the largest clock in the world - this he did in 1869 and it was the largest. What happened afterwards, no one could foretell. |
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