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    1. In the eyes of ecclesiologists their greatest achievementhad been to rescue the Gothic Revival from the smear of Popery.Pugin — that ‘wonderful man’, as Burges always thought of him— had tainted the movement with a whiff of incense. Ruskinsupplied an anti-papal deodorant.

      SLAYYYY this shows how, while there were clear catholic taints to it, which was seen by Bute! not everyone saw it as catholic, with ruskin managing to get rid of the papal label associated with it, with a far greater array of anglican, and even dissenter, churches build