However, Powell's work was not, like many stained glass designers, merely imitative. His designs are original innovations in the Gothic style. The quality of Hardman's church windows, particularly in the 1850s and 1860s, was superb. Major commissions The most famous building that the Hardmans made glass for was the new Houses of Parliament in London, for which Pugin was the interior designer. Pugin employed the Scottish firm of Ballantine and Allen to manufacture the windows that he designed for the House of Lords, but all the rest were made by Hardmans, who have maintained their relationship with that building, repairing and replacing glass damaged or destroyed during World War II. Apart from the windows created for Pugin's churches in England and Ireland, two of Hardman's major commissions were to come from Australia. In the 1860s the architect Edmund Blacket commissioned Hardmans to supply 27 windows, including a 6-light West window and a 7-light East window for St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney. They were installed for the consecration in 1868. In the 1880s William Wardell selected the same firm to provide windows for St. Mary's R.C. Cathedral in the same city. This building, of which the nave was not completed until the 1930s, is very much larger than St Andrew's and has three large rose windows and an enormous East window, the tracery of which was based directly on that of Lincoln Cathedral, c.1280. The design of this huge window, depicting the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the pinnacles of achievement in Gothic Revival stained glass. Buildings with glass by Hardmans England St. Nicholas' Church, Newbury, Berkshire Sandhurst Royal Memorial Chapel, Sandhurst, Berkshire St. Michael and All Angels' Church, Sandhurst, Berkshire St. Paul's Church, Wokingham, Berkshire St Pauls' Church, Clifton, Bristol St. Mary's Church, St Neots, Cambridgeshire Our Lady and St. Wilfrid's Church, Warwick Bridge, Cumbria St. Hieritha's Church, Chittlehampton, Devon Wynard's Chapel, Exeter, Devon Holy Trinity Church, Ilfracombe, Devon Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, Gloucestershire St. Peter's Church, Gloucester, Gloucestershire Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire St. Michael the Archangel's Church, Felton, Herefordshire St. Margaret's Church, Halstead, Kent St. Catherine's Church, Kingsdown, Kent Our Lady and St. Hubert's Catholic Church, Great Harwood, Lancashire St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Algakirk, Lincolnshire St. Nicholas' Church, Lincoln, Lincolnshire Our Ladye Star of the Sea Church, Greenwich, London St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Woolwich, London St. James' Church, Heywood, Greater Manchester St. Margaret's Church,