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

'Henry Faithwaite Leigh, George Leigh and Catherine Pulford', William Spence

Accession number WAG8776

Henry Faithwaite Leigh’s epitaph records his involvement in the founding of St Nicholas’s Catholic chapel (the original location of the monument) and its adjoining school. The design of the memorial is quite simple: a relief carving of an urn bearing Leigh’s coat of arms, set against a background of grey marble.