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 Thomson', Sir William Chantrey

Accession number WAG98440

Formerly in the Northgate End Unitarian Chapel, Halifax, this monument was acquired for the Oratory in 1981 following the demolition of the chapel in the previous year.

John Thomson served as a doctor in Halifax for nine years and established a dispensary there which was the origin of the Halifax Infirmary. Below his portrait is carved a staff entwined with a snake, the symbol of Aesculapius the Greek god of medicine.