after a decade away, Augustus’s eldest son Edward Pugin returned to live in the grange in 1862. he too was an architect and became a substantial local figure in his own right. it was Edward who designed and built most of St. Augustine’s monastery and finished the church designed and started by his father. he also altered thge grange, adding the entrance corridor and gate piers, extending the drawing room, adding a conservatory and making various extensions and changes to the internal layout to adapt it for mid-Victorian life (the Landmark Trust has now removed many of these changes and returned the house to how it was built by Augustus - although the entrance corridor remains)
all days are special in greggworld but today is ever-so-slighty extra special, it sees the publication in English of Haruki Murakami’s Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - my copy is being delivered as i write...
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