Shrine of St Augustine & The National Pugin Centre
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Virtual Tour
Experience the Virtual Tour and take a look around the Church and National Pugin Centre
Opening Times
Open for visits 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM except Christmas day and also by special arrangement.
Please check the newsletter for weekday mass times.
Mass on Friday is Ordinariate Use and Mass on Wednesday & Saturday is the Traditional Latin Low Mass (1962)
Sunday Masses are at 8.30 (said) and 12 Noon (Traditional Latin Mass 1962 Sung)
Confessions available on request or by appointment.
Exposition ending with Benediction Tuesday 12.30 to 3pm
School/Group/Parish Visits: Contact us to arrange a bespoke visit.
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Visit Us
We look forward to welcoming you to St Augustine’s. Thousands of people visit St Augustine’s each year: be one of them!
News & Events
Three talks were given for our virtual Pugin Week. Click below to access them.
Shrine Walks
Take the Way of St Augustine and discover the beautiful Kentish countryside, where St Augustine once walked, and where Christianity first came to the English people. Walk between the Shrine of St Augustine, Ramsgate, and Canterbury Cathedral, both places of immense cultural, historical, and religious significance.
Walk from the Shrine to Canterbury Cathedral on the Way of St Augustine.
Walk from Rochester Cathedral to the Shrine on the Augustine Camino.
The Way of St Augustine
Take the Way of St Augustine and discover the beautiful Kentish countryside, where St Augustine once walked, and where Christianity first came to the English people. Walk between the Shrine of St Augustine, Ramsgate, and Canterbury Cathedral, both places of immense cultural, historical, and religious significance.
Augustine Camino
The Augustine Camino is a week-long walking pilgrimage from Rochester Cathedral (the second founded by Augustine) to Ramsgate via Aylesford Priory, Canterbury Cathedral, Minster Abbey and many very wonderful small village churches and country pubs.
"It is worth working all one's life for - to see a real church with all its fittings in the Isle of Thanet - the cradle of Catholicism in England."
St Augustines Church
St Augustine
Pugin
About St Augustine's
This is the home of the Gothic Revival, as the personal church of the man who built the Houses of Parliament – Augustus Pugin.
About St Augustine of England
St Augustine was sent by Pope Gregory the Great to England to give the English people the Good News of Christianity. He was a monk at the monastery founded by Gregory (before he was elected pope) on the Caelian Hill in Rome. There is still a monastery there today.
About Augustus Pugin
Pugin was one of the most important designers and architects of the nineteenth century. He lived for just 40 years, but people say that in that time he completed 80 years of work.
HLF Project
Heritage Lottery Fund
St Augustine’s worked with the generous help and funding of the Heritage Lottery Fund to complete a project for the establishing of an Education, Research and Visitor Centre at the Shrine.
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