 On 28 January 1867 Hubert Austin joined Paley in the practice as a partner . He was the half @-@ brother of Thomas Austin , who had been a pupil of Sharpe . Hubert Austin had worked for three years in the office of George Gilbert Scott , and before he joined the Lancaster practice had designed Christ Church , Ashford , Kent ( 1855 – 56 ) . Following his arrival , the work of the practice continued much as before , with both ecclesiastical and secular commissions . 
