Rosemary HIll.
ROSEMARY HILL
GOD’S ARHITECT: PUGIN & THE BUILDING OF ROMANTIC BRITAIN (2008)
Winner of Wolfson History Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Elizabeth Longford Prize, and the Marsh Biography Award.
Augustus Pugin (born 1812) was an English architect who played a prominent role in the Gothic Revival. His father Auguste Pugin was a draghtsman who fled France with his family to escape the French Revolution. Augustus Pugin studied draughtsmanship and architecture under his father, and went on to develop a thriving pracitice designing both Anglican and Catholic churches - all in Gothic Reival style. He also played an important role, working with Charles Barry, in the design of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament.
John Carey described Rosemarhy Hill’s biography of Pugin as: ‘A magnificent biography, as sumptuous and intricate as anything Pugin built'. The Guardian described the book as: ‘ marvellously clear guide through the agitated density of Pugin's life and the volatile worlds of early Victorian taste, politics and theology.’
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Born in London in 1957, Rosemary Hill went to school in Surrey, to university in Cambridge and again, much later, in London. She was married for twenty-six years to the poet Christopher Logue until his death in 2011. She married the architectural historian Gavin Stamp (1948-2018) in April 2014. She describes herself as being interested in the relationship between three dimensional objects and abstract ideas.
