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Roderick O'Donnell is an architectural historian, freelance writer and lecturer. O'Donnell has published extensively on the works of the English architects, Augustus Pugin (1812-1852) and his son and successor Edward Welby Pugin (1834-1875).
O'Donnell, who studied at the University of Cambridge, [1] has Master of Arts and Ph.D degrees. [2]
From 1975 to 1978, he worked as a research assistant in Dublin for the Pevsner Architectural Guides 'Buildings of Ireland' series. [3] From 1982, O'Donnell worked as an inspector at English Heritage and the public bodies that preceded it. [3]
He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1999. [2]
Since 2011, O'Donnell has worked as an architectural historian in a private capacity.[ citation needed ] He has written in academic journals and has also contributed to The Catholic Herald . [4] He has given talks and lectures, for example, on Augustus Pugin at the University of Malta, [5] and on the history, art and architecture of Buckfast Abbey. [6] [ dead link ]
Some photographs, attributed to O'Donnell, are in the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art. [7]
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Our Lady and St Alphonsus Church or Our Blessed Lady and St Alphonsus Church is a Catholic parish church in Blackmore Park, near Hanley Swan, Malvern Hills District, Worcestershire, England. It was built from 1844 to 1846, before the reestablishment of the Catholic dioceses. It was designed by Charles Hansom, with furnishings designed by Augustus Pugin, in the Gothic Revival style. It is located on Hanley Swan road to the north of Hanley Swan. It is a Grade II* listed building.
O'Donnell [..] was research assistant in Dublin for the Buildings of Ireland 1975—78 [..] He has been an inspector with English Heritage and its predecessor bodies since 1982
The third lecture by Roderick O'Donnell [..] dealt with Augustus Welby Pugin as an architect to the Catholic Revival.