The group included architects Peter Gilbey, Robert Maguire, Keith Murray (an ecclesiastical designer), John Newton (Burles, Newton & Partners), Patrick Nuttgens, George Pace, Patrick Reyntiens (stained glass artist), Lance Wright, as well as co-founder and Anglican priest Peter Hammond and Catholic priest and theologian Charles Davis.
[1] During the holidays Winkley worked for the Salesians alongside school architect Jeffrey Williams.
In 1960 he went to the US, where he worked for two architectural practices, joining a firm of Christian architects and working on a library and Catholic Club at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.[2] In 1962, he volunteered to help build a clinic, housing and church in an area of Mexico City that had been devastated by an earthquake.
[3] Having studied under the church designers Maguire & Murray, Winkley became a member of the UK architectural liturgical movement.
His buildings include: He was also behind the reordering of a number of churches, such as: Austin Winkley met his future wife, Elizabeth (née Bussy), a drama teacher, at a national Catholic Youth Association Conference.