Pugin and Hardman at the Palace of Westminster

Last Friday, 4th October 2019, I attended a symposium hosted by the Pugin Society with the Heritage and Collections team at the Palace of Westminster. The symposium focussed on the contribution to the Palace of Hardman’s, a Birmingham-based family firm of metalworkers. Hardman’s made ‘toy’ (small) items in metal and ecclesiastical metalwork and worked with A.W.N. Pugin on St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham, and provided metalwork and stained glass for the New Palace of Westminster, among other things.

I was there as the guest of my PhD student, Jamie Jacobs (University of Kent) and I was very proud to see her present her research so relevantly, and to hear the appreciation of the audience and their engaged question and answers discussion afterwards.

Read my account of the symposium and the tour of the Palace which followed in my blog post here