Landport Commercial Road, which was the birthplace of English novelist Charles Dickens born February 7th, 1812. His former home is now the Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum in Buckland. The area is home to St Agatha's church which was originally constructed under the then mission incumbent Robert William Radclyffe Dolling. Landport Landport is a district located near the centre of Portsea Island and is part of the city of Portsmouth, England. The district contains the main shopping area for Portsmouth. Before World War II the district was also a residential area, mainly catering for employees of the naval dockyard and their families.
St Agatha's, Landport St Agatha's, Landport St Agatha’s Church is a parish church in the Landport district of Portsmouth. It is affiliated to the Roman Catholic Church through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. It is situated on the Marketway next to the Cascades Shopping Centre. It was built in 1838 and is a Grade II* listed building. Originally, the site had a small mission church situated in an area of extreme deprivation. The church was built because of the efforts of Father Robert William Radclyffe Dolling, an Irish Anglo-Catholic priest. He worked to alleviate the social ills of the area.