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Albion House, Ramsgate, Kent, 5 September 2020. Built 1791. Princess Victoria stayed here and recuperated from typhoid in 1835-36 just before becoming Queen.
More scenes from yesterday's high tide at Ramsgate.
There was this ball of glowing gas in the sky, which was warm. But it soon went away and the rain returned....
Sundowner. This tiny ship, captained by the former second officer of the Titanic, Cmdr Charles Lightoller, rescued 130 soldiers from Dunkirk in one trip on 1st June 1940. The bravery is astonishing.
St Augustine, Ramsgate, Kent
A superlative church by August Welby Pugin. Pugin had a special devotion to St Augustine, and when he became wealthy from the architectural commissions he had carried out, he bought a large house beside the sea at Ramsgate, close to the spot where St Augustine had landed on his mission to convert the heathen English. Here he built a house, the Grange, and beside it a church designed precisely to his vision, with no interference from patrons or dioceses.
The church was constructed between 1845-1852 according to Pugin's ‘true principles of Christian architecture’. He described it as ‘my own child’ and it was to be the place of his burial. Pugin wrote to the Earl of Shrewsbury, “My whole soul is devoted to building this church here”. He spared nothing in the construction using only the finest material and workmen. He wrote to his son Edward, ‘I am giving you the best architectural lessons I can; watch the church, there shall not be a single true principle broken’. Even before a parish was formed in Ramsgate the church provided mass for local Catholics, visitors and foreign sailors. In 1848 it was the venue for the first High Mass on Thanet since the Reformation.
In 2012 the church was declared the National Shrine of St Augustine in England by the Diocese of Southwark, in which it lies.