the grange, Ramsgate - grille in door to the garden from screaming alley

thank you Graham for sending this ('reproduced from the hilarious memoirs of John Hardman Powell)'

the hallway at the grange:

 

the wallpaper (designed by Augustus) and the hall chairs show the Pugin family arms which feature a martlet*, or stylized bird, with the motto that Pugin himself added: "en avant." it was entirely his own invention and surely the perfect motto for this driven visionary, who was to have so much influence on the future face of Britain; yet there is something paradoxical about it too, in that his inspiration came so authentically from the past.

stained glass window in the dining room:

*these heraldic birds are shown properly in English heraldry with two or three short tufts of feathers in place of legs and feet, making it impossible for them to rest - again very apt for Pugin who in his short life designed one hundred buildings, wrote eight books, and produced influential furniture, metalwork and stained glass designs and had seven children