The Oratory is a Grade I listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1952. A C19 Chapel, mortuary chapel. 2 related planning applications.
The Oratory
- WRENN ID
- keen-solder-umber
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1952
- Type
- Chapel, mortuary chapel
- Period
- C19
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SJ 3589 NW UPPER DUKE STREET L1
56/1263 The Oratory (formerly listed as Former 28.6.52 Mortuary Chapel)
G.V. I
Former mortuary chapel to St. James Cemetery, above which it stands on a steep rocky eminence. 1829.By John Foster in the form of a miniature Greek Doric temple, amphiprostyle, with hexastyle porticos on stylobate. Stone tiled roof with flat skylight and antefixae. Entrance with moulded architrave and panelled double doors, rectangular fanlight, and glazing bars. Good interior with peristyle of Ionic columns and central skylight. Good assembly of early C19 monuments, some by J. Gibson and Sir G. Chantrey. Statue of Huskisson by J. Gibson taken from Customs House,South Castle Street or Canning Place. One of the purest monuments of the Great Revival in England.Restored in 1981 and now used as a sculpture gallery.
Listing NGR: SJ3538589544
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