Richard Popplewell Pullan

He was articled to Richard Lane in Manchester and in 1853 he worked with Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt on the Medieval court at the Great Exhibition.

The limestone core of the monument was still there but the marble cladding and other details had either been stolen or lay around where it had fallen.

Smith was able to replace and move each of the remaining stones[3] which allowed the engineer to write a detailed report on the structure.

[1] Pullan had an office at 15 Clifford's Inn London and entered many of the major competitions of the later Victorian period, without success.

[1] In the following years, Pullan worked with a number of Burges's team, including John Starling Chapple and William Frame to complete some of Burges's unfinished works, including Cardiff Castle and Castell Coch, the fantasy palaces Burges had begun for John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute.

Pullan's sketch of what it would have looked like when it was first built. It is 18 metres high and faced in marble. The lion weighs 6 tons.