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Latitude: 51.4971 / 51°29'49"N
Longitude: -0.1702 / 0°10'12"W
OS Eastings: 527115
OS Northings: 179156
OS Grid: TQ271791
Mapcode National: GBR 5K.ZJ
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.0MDQ
Plus Code: 9C3XFRWH+RW
Entry Name: The Oratory House (Block Parallel to Brompton Road, Brompton Oratory)
Listing Date: 7 November 1984
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1080763
English Heritage Legacy ID: 203547
Also known as: Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
ID on this website: 101080763
Location: Brompton, Kensington and Chelsea, London, SW7
County: London
District: Kensington and Chelsea
Electoral Ward/Division: Brompton & Hans Town
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Kensington and Chelsea
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Holy Trinity with St Paul, Onslow Sq and St Augustine, Sth Kensington
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Church building Italian Baroque architecture
In the entry for:
TQ 2779 SW BROMPTON ROAD SW3
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The Oratory House
(block parallel to Brompton
Road, Brompton Oratory)
GV II*
London headquarters, private chapel and library of the Oratorian fathers. Main house (north block) and northern part of west wing designed by JJ Scoles, 1853. Southern part of west wing, 1872-3, partially refaced in stone by Leonard Stokes, 1911. Gault brick and stucco, slate roofs.
Italianate style. North block: four storeys, five windows wide, sash windows with margin lights, rustications to ground floor, central entrance. West wing: three storeys, with balustraded parapets. Interior of west wing includes on ground floor the Little Oratory, refitted with stalls apsidal sanctuary, altar and ceiling decoration by J Hungerford Pollen, 1871-2 and with grisaille paintings on walls by Edgar Ritchard with Adrian Brookholding-Jones, 1954; on first floor the
galleried library is chiefly by Scoles. At south end of west wing, St Wilfred's Hall on first floor has Italianate painted decoration.
The Oratory House is connected at the east end to the Brompton Oratory Church(q.v.)
Source: Survey of London, vol. 41, 1983, pp. 50-55
Listing NGR: TQ2711579156
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