The Oratory
THE ORATORY, UPPER DUKE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1063282
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Oratory
- Statutory Address:
- THE ORATORY, UPPER DUKE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1063282
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Oratory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ORATORY, UPPER DUKE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE ORATORY, UPPER DUKE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Liverpool (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 35386 89543
Details
SJ 3589 NW UPPER DUKE STREET L1
56/1263 The Oratory (formerly listed as Former 28.6.52 Mortuary Chapel)
G.V. I
Former mortuary chapel to St. James Cemetery, above which it stands on a steep rocky eminence. 1829.By John Foster in the form of a miniature Greek Doric temple, amphiprostyle, with hexastyle porticos on stylobate. Stone tiled roof with flat skylight and antefixae. Entrance with moulded architrave and panelled double doors, rectangular fanlight, and glazing bars. Good interior with peristyle of Ionic columns and central skylight. Good assembly of early C19 monuments, some by J. Gibson and Sir G. Chantrey. Statue of Huskisson by J. Gibson taken from Customs House,South Castle Street or Canning Place. One of the purest monuments of the Great Revival in England.Restored in 1981 and now used as a sculpture gallery.
Listing NGR: SJ3538589544
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 359643
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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