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

'John Foster' memorial tablet

The architect of the Oratory is commemorated by a simple slab of polished red granite. The inscription records how ‘on his return from long and arduous travels in the pursuit of his art’ – a different picture from that painted by Cockerell – ‘ … he … enriched his native town with the fruits of his genius, industry and integrity’.