Work will begin soon on restoring Pugin’s Church of St Augustine of Canterbury in Ramsgate, Kent. Creating a visitor centre and research facilities at the Victorian architect’s masterpiece is both an evangelising and cultural enterprise When Fr Marcus Holden was a seminarian at the English College in Rome he would gaze at a roundel in the chapel that showed St Augustine landing in England to begin his evangelising mission to the Anglo-Saxons. From it he sensed his vocation but says he never would have dreamt that he would be sent to the place where Augustine first set foot on English soil in 597.But that is exactly where Fr Holden is now: at the Shrine of St Augustine in Ramsgate, Kent, as rector of the church built by Augustus Welby Pugin, arguably the most influential archi