Drawing

This design is one of three sheets of designs in the V&A's collections for the House of Lords Bishops' Corridor. It features a square panel enclosing a shaped quatrefoil containing a central cross fluery, with a foliage pattern. The ceiling decoration in this corridor in 1980 differed substantially from that given here.

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52) is widely considered as one of the most significant and influential architects, designers and theorists of the 19th century. Following his conversion to Catholicism in 1835, he identified the Gothic style with Christian architecture and his work and writings inspired and framed the Gothic Revival. In 'Contrasts', published in 1836, he condemned classical forms and ardently praised 14th and 15th-century architecture. Pugin is best remembered for his work on the Palace of Westminster.