Church of St Augustine of England (Roman Catholic) With Cloisters Attached
CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE OF ENGLAND (ROMAN CATHOLIC) WITH CLOISTERS ATTACHED, ST AUGUSTINE'S ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1281779
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine of England (Roman Catholic) With Cloisters Attached
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE OF ENGLAND (ROMAN CATHOLIC) WITH CLOISTERS ATTACHED, ST AUGUSTINE'S ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1281779
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine of England (Roman Catholic) With Cloisters Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE OF ENGLAND (ROMAN CATHOLIC) WITH CLOISTERS ATTACHED, ST AUGUSTINE'S ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE OF ENGLAND (ROMAN CATHOLIC) WITH CLOISTERS ATTACHED, ST AUGUSTINE'S ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Thanet (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ramsgate
- National Grid Reference:
- TR3766864329
Details
RAMSGATE ST. AUGUSTINE'S ROAD TR 3764 SE (South side) 18/366 Church of St. Augustine of England (R.C.) with cloisters attached GV I Church with cloisters attached. 1845-51 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin for his self ,later additions by Edward Welby Pugin and Peter Paul Pugin (1858 and 97) 1884. Knapped flint with Whitby stone dressings. Fish slated tiled roofs. Two bay nave and south aisle, crossing and south transept; two bay chancel and south chancel aisle. English Decorated style. Nave has 4 light west window, south aisle with two 2 light windows, 4 light trancept and two 2 light south chancel aisle windows, 4 light east chancel window. South porch against south trancept. Steeply pitched roofs with quatrefoil ventilation openings. Crossing tower carried up to bell stage only has 2 lancets to each face. Interior, sandstone ashlar of high quality, oak roofs panelled in chancel and chancel aisle. Two bay Decorated style arcade 4 arches from crossing, intended to be dominated by the Rood screen, removed from High Altar and later pulpit c. 1972. Nave -benches and chancel stalls, now returned on site of High Altar. Crucifix by Pugin with medieval figure re-erected against crossing pier. Stone font with elaborate wooden cover in south aisle by Pugin, made by Myers, exhibited 1857. Pugin chantry in south transept has oak parclose screen, stone altar, Pugin's tomb with recumbent effigy and kneeling family mourners. Window above with Pugin as donor of church and his 2 pre-deceased wives. Family brasses. South chancel Lady Chapel with stone altar and c.1862 metal screen by John Hardman Powell, Pugin's chancel rood screen re-erected around-altar. Much early Hardman and Co. glass, designed by Pugin. Minton tesselated floor tiles throughout. Single storey west range of cloister with gabled entrance from road, with double boarded doors in moulded arched surround with figurative sculpture over. North cloister range with 4 light tracerred window and door below, and 2 stage tower with lead spirelet, forming the original church of 1847. East range of cloister beyond has substantial 2 storey range of uncertain original purpose. Within cloister 2 chapels by Peter Paul Pugin, one by Edward Welby Pugin (1859) given by Kenelm Digby, author of Mores Catolici. Church built by Pugin with his annual professional fees, reputedly up to £20,000 Left on his death in 1852 to R.C. diocese of Southwark, and from 1856 used by Benedictine monks of St. Augustine's Abbey (connected by tunnel below St. Augustine's Road). Consecrated 1884. Pugin's favourite and most personal building, containing show work by his usual collaborates, George Myers, John Hardman and Herbert Minton, with further work by his sons. (See St. Augustine's Guide; see also B.O.E. Kent II 1983, 421-4).
Listing NGR: TR3767064328
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 172002
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Church of St Augustine Church Guide, ()
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 421-424
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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