St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, Tunbridge Wells was founded in 1880. It was originally located in the town centre in Tunbridge Wells, next to the church in Hanover Road.

Our Current school building was built in the 1950s, and is now located in Wilman Road, north of the town centre.

Our Parish Church is now a modern building and located in Crescent Road, about 1.5 miles away from the school building.

Parish History

St Augustine's began in 1838 when Jesuits arrived to found a small mission. The first St Augustine's Church was built on the corner of Hanover Rd and Grosvenor Rd, where Tesco's now stands and although there were only 50 Catholics within walking or riding distance - a church big enough for 250 people was built. Jesuit priests nurtured the small community until 1866, when  it was handed over  to Thomas Grant, the first Bishop of Southwark.

Our first diocesan priest at St Augustine's was Fr (later Canon) Joseph Searle. 

His work was continued by a succession of priests until eventually in 1959 Fr Bill Howell came to St Augustine's as assistant priest, but soon took over care of the parish when the parish priest Fr Stevenson fell ill, and then died.  In the intervening years a mass centre had been opened in Southborough, to eventually become the separate parish of St Dunstan's but mass centres  in Ramslye, Penshurst, Sherwood and Rusthall came and went.  The major change in Fr Bill's time was the closure of the old church in 1967 and the new Church built on its current site in the 1970s.