The Pugin Room
The Pugin Room  
 Works of Art 
 
 
 
Clockwise from the North Wall 
Morning Menu 
 
available 09:15-11:00am 
 
 
1.  Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860) 
Croissant ............................................ £0.70 
 
By Henry William Pickersgill 
 
 
Oil on canvas 
Continental pastries ............................ £1.30 
 
 
Sir Charles Barry won the architectural commission for the 
Toasted crumpet, teacake or muffin .... £0.60 
new Palace of Westminster in 1836 after a national 
served with butter 
competition.  Within this portrait, to the right of the 
figure of Barry himself is shown a design of the Victoria 
 
Tower.  Barry’s overall design was particularly praised for 
 
the enfilade of major interiors (Robing Room, Chambers, 
Available All Day 
and Lobbies) along the central axis of the principal floor 
 
(the line of route).  This must have seemed a vision of 
Assorted Sandwiches, per round ............. £2.25 
simplicity and coherence after the motley collection of 
lunch and tea service 
buildings which had formed the old Palace. 
 
 
Pot of Tea per person ............................ £0.85 
2.  Jane Pugin (nee Knill) (1827-1909) 
 
 
By George Augustus Freezor 
Cafetière of Coffee per person ............... £0.85 
 
Oil on canvas - lent from a private collection 
 
 
Hot Chocolate..................................... £0.85  
Jane Knill was AWN Pugin’s third wife whom he married in 
 
1848.  On his wedding day Pugin wrote ‘I am married, I 
Deluxe Hot Chocolate 
have got a first rate Gothic women at last’.  Tragically 
with whipped cream & marshmallows ............ £1.45 
Pugin was to die only four years later.  Jane outlived her 
 
husband by some 57 years.  In this portrait, Jane is shown 
 
wearing some of the jewellery designed by Pugin for their 
wedding date.  This portrait was clearly intended as a 
Afternoon Tea 
comparison for that of Pugin himself, as the near identical 
available 15:00-17:30 
frame  suggests.    However,  recent  conservation  work  to 
 
the frames has shown that elements of this frame, 
Home-made scone with  
particularly the quatrefoil ornaments are plaster not 
butter and conserve ............................ £0.70 
carved wood and appear to have been cast from the 
clotted cream ..................................... £1.25 
original Pugin frame.  Bronze paint, which has been 
 
applied to the frames at a later date, has been removed 
Selected conserves
revealing a surprising amount of original gilding. 
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3.  Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) 
House of Commons home-made............ £1.35 
 
By John Roger Herbert 
rich fruit cake, per slice 
 
Oil on canvas 
 
 
Selected cakes, 
This is the best known portrait of the celebrated architect 
per cake ....................... £1.30 
and design of the Gothic Revival.  The unfinished, two-
 
dimensional appearance is perhaps explained by the fact 
Plate of Country Biscuits...................... £0.70 
that Pugin, a notorious workaholic, grudgingly allowed the 
 
artist only twenty minutes for sitting.  The frame was 
Seasonal fresh fruit salad..................... £1.90 
designed by Pugin and made by Crace, the firm 
with cream 
responsible for the painted and gilded decoration in the 
 
new Palace of Westminster.  Within the quatrefoil above 
Pugin’s head is the family emblem, the Martlet, a 
Petit Fours.......................................... £1.35 
mythological bird that has no feet.  Curiously here the 
feet have been added at a later date, possibly to match 
 
the birds in the other quatrefoils. 
NUT ALLERGY SUFFERERS 
 
All of our food is prepar
 
ed in kitchens where nuts are present but do 
not all contain nuts as part of their ingredients. Our staff will be happy 
Pugin Room  
to supply further details of our products, should you require them. 
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Westminster Tea 
Teas & Infusions 
 
 
Traditional English Tea 
Black Teas 
Assorted Sandwiches 
English Breakfast, rich and perky ............ £0.85 
Home-made Scones served  
Earl Grey, fragrant with bergamot oil........  £0.85 
with butter, clotted cream  
Lapsang Souchong, the smokey one.......... £0.85 
and strawberry conserve 
Darjeeling, the ‘champagne’ of teas .......... £0.85 
Selected cakes 
 
Seasonal fresh fruit salad  
Organic Infusions 
with cream 
£6.75 
Camomile  .......................................... £1.00 
 
Green Tea  ......................................... £1.05 
With a glass of House Champagne 
£13.25 
 
 
Herbal Teas 
Camomile  .......................................... £0.85 
 
Peppermint ........................................ £0.85 
 
  
Fruit Infusions 
Cream Tea 
Cranberry, Elderflower & Raspberry  .... £0.85 
 
Blackcurrant, Vanilla & Ginseng  .......... £0.85 
Traditional English Tea 
 
Assorted Sandwiches 
Home-made Scones served  
Coffee & Hot Drinks 
with butter, clotted cream  
and strawberry conserve  
 
Cafetière of ground coffee .................. £0.85 
Selected cakes 
£5.65 
Hot Chocolate  .................................... £0.85 
 
Deluxe Hot Chocolate 
With a glass of House Champagne 
with whipped cream & marshmallows ............ £1.45 
£12.15 
 
 
Petit Fours ......................................... £1.35 
 
 
 
Plate of Country Biscuits...................... £0.70 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                                              05 May 09 
 

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