The Oratory

• The Oratory and St James's Cemetery
• The Greek Revival
• The architect, John Foster Jnr
• The architecture of the Oratory
• 'The Nicholson family'
• 'John Foster'
• 'Rev Ralph Nicholson and his wife Catherine'
• 'Henry Park'
• 'William Earle'
• 'John Gore'
• 'Dr William Stevenson'
• 'John Thomson'
• 'Agnes Elizabeth Jones'
• 'John Rhodes'
• 'William and George Hetherington'
• 'William Hammerton'
• 'William Ewart'
• 'Mrs Emily Robinson'
• 'William White'
• 'Rt Rev Thomas Penswick'
• 'Henry Faithwaite Leigh, George Leigh and Catherine Pulford'
• Further reading

Text taken from 'The Oratory', a guide to the building and its monuments, Joseph Sharples, 1991

Further reading

Bibliography

HM Colvin, 'A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840', London 1978

JM Crook, 'The Greek Revival', London 1972

Lady Eastlake (ed.), 'Life of John Gibson RA, Sculptor', London 1870

P Fleetwood-Hesketh, 'Murray's Lancashire Architectural Guide', London 1955

N Penny, 'Church monuments in Romantic England', New Haven and London 1977

N Pevsner, 'The Buildings of England: South Lancashire', London 1969

Websites

St James Cemetery