153:, who had founded the Lancaster practice in 1835. During the time that Austin was working with Paley, it is on difficult to know what part either partner contributed to any particular project. No business records of the practice have survived. Almost all the works were attributed to the partnership as a whole, and not to an individual partner. From the foundation of the practice, most of the work undertaken was ecclesiastical. Following the arrival of Austin, the nature of these commissions continued much as before, mainly for the design of new churches, or the restoration of and alterations to existing churches. During the life of the partnership, over 50 new churches were designed and built. A high proportion of these churches were built in Lancashire, or in the adjoining counties of
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340:(1852â53). But after the arrival of Austin these features became much more prominent, so much so that the practice came to be seen as "a true pioneer in the rehabilitation of Perpendicular architecture after its ecclesiological exile for a quarter of a century".. Brandwood et al. go so far as to credit the firm with the "Perpendicular revival in the North" Examples of this are the rebuilding of the bodies of
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73:, on 31 March 1841. He was the youngest of nine children of Revd Thomas Austin (1796â1856), who was a curate at the church in Haughton-le-Skerne, and was the sixth child of his second marriage, his mother being Jane Margaret nÊe Brougham ((1802â66). By the time he attended a grammar school in
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volume, Pollard and
Pevsner state that he "transformed the firm into a practice which decorated Lancashire, and especially southwest Lancashire, with churches the equal of any in the country". In the same volume, Pevsner is quoted as saying that during the period of the Paley and Austin partnership
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Discussing the history of the practice, Brandwood et al. consider that it is "most famous" for the work carried out during the period that Austin was a partner. Commenting specifically on Austin, Pevsner called him a "genius", and said that it was he "it seems, who was responsible for the firm's
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Austin's main interests were in historic buildings and archaeology, and in music, painting, and horticulture. He was a sportsman, being skilled rower, and a member of the
Lancaster Rifle Club. A devout
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January 1867 and became Paley's partner on 1 July 1868. The two partners had been brought together by Thomas Austin, Hubert's half-brother. In the 1840s Thomas Austin had been a pupil of
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Brandwood et al. note that the greatest period of church building by the firm coincided with the time that Austin was working in it. Following the arrival of Austin, the historical historian
105:, a collection of large-scale drawings of buildings in Britain and abroad. In 1866 he was awarded the first Pugin scholarship of the RIBA. Austin's first individual commission was for
165:. The churches were built in towns and in country areas, and ranged in size from large and impressive, to small and humble. Two early large churches in industrial areas were
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in three volumes, a work similar to that he produced while working in Scott's office. It consists of drawing of churches, houses, and details of their designs.
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They also did some work on country houses. During the time that Paley had been the sole principal, he had carried out work for rapidly-growing town of
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from 1894 to 1903. He played little part in public life, his only public appointment being as a
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features. Paley had used
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