RAMSGATE ST. AUGUSTINE'S ROAD TR 3764 SE (north side) 18/370 St. Augustine's Abbey 23.6.86 with perimeter wall GV II Monastery. 1860-61 by E. W. Pugin, extended 1904 by P. P. Pugin and 1926, attributed Charles Winmill. All executed in black knapped flint with polychrome brick and stone dressings with banded tile roofs. Cross-shaped plan with library block set off to west, all in reasonably consistent Victorian "Reformed Gothic" style. Left hand Open court (E. W. Pugin) of 2 storeys, with single storey closed cloister on western block. Variety of window types under ventilated. brick or stone lancet or plate glass sashes or casements. Prominent plate tracery surrounds and large external stack with entrance through base in centre of central wing, west face. Half dormer first floor windows, some with surviving original plate glass sashes, some recent inappropriate replacement windows. Formerly prominent ridge stacks partly cut down. Three storey east wing by Peter Paul Pugin, still High Victorian in style. Late-C20 single storey wing connects to Bergh Memorial Library, 1926 and attributed to Charles Winmill, in a more Perpendicular style of Gothic. The abbey was built on land purchased 1847 by A. W. Pugin, and with the benefaction of Mr. Alfred Luck. British Monks invited to take over St. Augustine's Church and found monastery 1856 from Subiaco, Italy. The first English Abbey so designated since the Reformation. Wall. Flint and banded brick with brick buttresses, about 8 feet high , carried along the entire frontage to St. Augustine's Road (and returned to east of Abbey) and to Grange Road, with gate piers with pinnacles at east end, gabled and buttressed gateway with boarded door to single storey wing projecting west of Abbey central block, and hipped gate to Grange Road with side gate and arched wooden carriage gates. (See Guide to St. Augustine's Abbey). Listing NGR: TR3764064388