Cuthbert Welby Pugin (2 June 1840 – 25 March 1928) was an English architect and businessman.

Life and career

He was the son of

Augustus Pugin Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin ( ; 1 March 181214 September 1852) was an English architect, designer, artist and critic with French and, ultimately, Swiss origins. He is principally remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival st ...

and his second wife, Louisa Burton, making him Pugin's fourth child and second son. He was the brother of

Edward Welby Pugin Edward Welby Pugin (11 March 1834 – 5 June 1875) was an English architect, the eldest son of architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and Louisa Barton and part of the Pugin & Pugin family of church architects. His father was an architect an ...

and half-brother of

Peter Paul Pugin Peter Paul Pugin (1851 – March 1904) was an English architect. He was the son of Augustus Pugin by his third wife, Jane Knill, and the half-brother of architect and designer Edward Welby Pugin. Life and career Peter Paul Pugin was only a ...

, who were both architects. He is most notable for his design of St John the Evangelist, Poulton-le-Fylde and his collaborations with Peter Paul to complete St Anne's Church, Highfield Road,

English Martyrs Church, Tower Hill English Martyrs Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Tower Hill, London. It was built from 1873 to 1876, by Pugin & Pugin according to designs by their deceased brother, E. W. Pugin. It is located on Prescot Street, close to the Royal Coll ...

and

Sacred Heart Church, Kilburn Sacred Heart Church or the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Roman Catholic parish church in Kilburn, London. It was designed by E. W. Pugin and built after his death by his brothers Pugin & Pugin in two stages, in 1879 and from 1898 to 1 ...

to designs by Edward. All three brothers also made additions and alterations to

The Grange, Ramsgate The Grange , Ramsgate, Kent, on the coast of southern England was designed by the Victorian architect and designer Augustus Pugin for himself. Built between 1843 and 1844, in the Gothic Revival style, Pugin intended it both as a home and as a man ...

, originally designed by their father. In 1860, he became manager of the South East Furniture Company, founded by Edward to manufacture Edward's designs. He began assisting Edward in the 1860s, and he and Peter Paul took over the English and Scottish work of

Pugin & Pugin Pugin & Pugin ( fl. 1851– c. 1958) was a London-based family firm of church architects, founded in the Westminster office of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–1852). The firm was succeeded by his sons Cuthbert Welby Pugin (1840–1928) a ...

in 1873, when Edward had to flee to the US to escape his creditors. When Edward died in 1875, Peter Paul took over main responsibility for the firm, with Cuthbert focussing on its furniture-making and furnishing sides until 1880, when he withdrew to run the family's furniture workshops directly. He lived in retirement at The Grange in

Ramsgate Ramsgate is a seaside resort, seaside town in the district of Thanet District, Thanet in east Kent, England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century. In 2001 it had a population of about 40,000. In 2011, according to t ...

until his death there in 1928.

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Cuthbert Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ( – 20 March 687) was an Anglo-Saxon saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Celtic tradition. He was a monk, bishop and hermit, associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in the Kingdom of Nort ...

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