he was improving the buildings and returning them to the original purity of the past. Pugin also objected to the Abbey style like at Fonthill.Work that educated architects to the mediaeval architecture were those of Thomas Rickman whos work on the Attempt to discriminate the styles of English architecture and the work of L N Cottingham who published many structural analyses which were intended to educate architects who many be restoring mediaeval building.These works were taught to A W N Pugin who was probably the most influential person in the gothic revival he took all these and more developments and publishes a number of books. His influences were profound. He announced 2 main principles of which he believed architecture should depend ;-that there should be no features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction or propriety -that ornament should not just be applied but express the essential structure of the building .(Story of architecture, Patrick Nuggins)Pugin despised the classical and Greek revival he said the beauty of Gothic architecture arises from the structure and that the materials used should be true. In Gothic architecture Inventive imitation was the ideal and copyism was frowned upon. This theory allowed architects to create irregular and functional ground plans. His work rounded up keen interest in the gothic and he was commissioned to build a number of churches and cathedrals due to the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829. After the houses of parliament burnt down the chosen style was Gothic not Classical. Pugin undertook all of the interior work. Another example was Scarisbirck Hall in Southport built in 1837 the great hall was with a timber framed roof with no classical plaster ceilings and it was all based on knowledge of the mediaeval architecture and all materials used were true.Pugins own house in St. Maries Grange built in1835 is based mediaeval vernacular forms it is ston...
