Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore.

on his work on the interior of St David's, Pantasaph, near Holywell, and its aesthetic principles ("..the antient faith in its antient form..."), including progress on the font, altar, statuary, and pulpit, his satisfaction with the Sacristry, and designs for vestments and reliquaries, also discussing the Great Exhibition's Medieval Court (where some items destined for Pantasaph were displayed) and his appointment as one of those commissioned "to select & purchase all we commended in the exhibition that was likely to improve the arts & manufactures of the country", the controversy over the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, and "my severe attack of nervous fever", one letter with a full-page sketch of the church interior from the nave facing the altar (c. 180 x 215mm., initialled and dated), 9 pages, 4to, integral address panels, red wax seals, stamps, postal marks (including on one letter a block of six penny reds), 2 March to 18 October 1851, some spotting and tears at folds

"...let the church be a model of Catholic antiquity & free from all those miserable ideas & things that keep back such great numbers of our countrymen from Catholic truth..."

Rudolph Feilding, later 8th Earl of Denbigh, converted to Roman Catholicism in 1850 and determined that his new church, then already under construction, should be dedicated to his new faith (rather than the Anglican Church as originally intended) - a decision that led to local riots. Pugin was employed to make the new building suitable for Catholic use.