A visitor centre telling the stories of St Augustine of Canterbury and his dedicated aficionado, the Victorian architect Augustus Pugin, is to be created in Ramsgate. Pugin, famous for Big Ben and the interior of the Houses of Parliament, moved to Ramsgate to be close to the point where St Augustine landed in 597 AD to bring Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England. The centre will be based in St Augustine’s Church, designed by Pugin and pictured above. Almost three-quarters of the &poun
16 July 2015, The Tablet
Architect and evangeliser
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