The place where Saint Augustine landed in 597 A.D., to bring the Gospel to England, and where the great Victorian architect, Augustus Pugin, lived, worked, and built his personal Church.
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A School Trip To Pugin's “The Grange”.
And Saint Augustine's Church, Ramsgate.
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Visitor Centre.
Information on Saint Augustine and Augustus Pugin with interpretative boards, videos, and audio guides available.
Introduction to The Shrine of Saint Augustine, Ramsgate, Kent.
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Pugin’s designs are on show in The Visitor Centre exhibition area. Featuring items owned and made for Pugin, as well as items inspired by his designs, this is a chance to see some of Pugin’s own creations.
Opening Times and Entry.
We’re open 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., each day.
Entry is free, and we suggest a donation of £3 per person.
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Once again, what an amazing presentation, thank you, Dom Zephyrinus, of an architectural marvel, the site of Augustus Pugin’s home, and the extraordinary shrines and Catholic art he preserved.
ReplyDeleteMoreover, Pugin’s architectural principles of Catholic architecture, luminosity and verticality, are of course spot on—essentially the same principles of Bramante and Michelangelo—principles lost since 1962 (and in some cases, before).
Two other thoughts. Pugin achieves all this even though he died at age 40. Amazing.
On a more critical note, the Novus Ordo Benedictine community that occupied the site as an Abbey church and Monastery up till 2011 fortunately has now left. Fortunately, because the virtual tour notes that the original high altar in the main chapel was “destroyed” by them in 1970 (their words) and a replica has since been installed to restore it. The Benedictines in many places went hard left after the Vatican Council, most notably misled by their primate at the time, Vatican II adviser to Annibale Bugnini, Rembert Weakland, and other insane abbots such as V2 well-known and influential dissenter, former Abbot of St Paul Outside the Wallls, Giovanni Franzoni (he finally left the order and the priesthood and married his psychiatrist so hopefully he’s getting help on a daily basis now). And they would always “go after” the sacred consecrated high altars first and smash them into pieces—Of course a great sacrilege. Cromwell would be proud.
But the good news is that the Pugin Centre and its marvelous art survives all the chaos to shine like a beacon to a future more rational age at some future time. Thank you, Zephyrinus!
Dear Dante Peregrinus.
ReplyDeleteDelighted you found this Post of interest and many thanks for your excellent contribution on the subject.