The Oratory House (Block Parallel to Brompton Road, Brompton Oratory) London, England

Listed Building Data

The Oratory House (Block Parallel to Brompton Road, Brompton Oratory) has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1080763
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II*
Date Listed
7 November 1984
Name
THE ORATORY HOUSE (BLOCK PARALLEL TO BROMPTON ROAD, BROMPTON ORATORY)
Location
THE ORATORY HOUSE (BLOCK PARALLEL TO BROMPTON ROAD, BROMPTON ORATORY), BROMPTON ROAD SW3
District
Kensington and Chelsea
County
Greater London Authority
Grid Reference
TQ 27115 79156
Easting
527115.0000
Northing
179156.0000

Listed Building Description

Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

In the entry for: TQ 2779 SW BROMPTON ROAD SW3 40/40 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