June 6 – Augustus Pugin is received into the Roman Catholic Church in a chapel in Salisbury, England, restored by himself.[1] At about this time he also writes his first controversial publication, the pamphlet Letter to A. W. Hakewill, architect, in answer to his reflections on the style for rebuilding the Houses of Parliament.[1]
^ abcdHill, Rosemary (2008). God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (Paperback ed.). London: Penguin Books. ISBN978-0-14-028099-9.