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| English Heritage Reference: | 203545 |
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| RBKC Reference: | 40/38 |
| Property: | THE ORATORY |
| Street: | BROMPTON ROAD , SW3 |
| Date: | 15/04/1969 |
| Grade: | II* |
| Grouped: | GV |
| Description: | Church. 1884. H Gribble. Stone. Elaborate Italian Baroque style building. Nave of 3 main bays. Side chapels. Transepts and apsed chancel. Symmetrical facade, 5 bays to ground floor, 3 above. Pediment; recessed porch. Partly rusticated with applied pilasters and blind niches. Return elevations with similar treatment, and balustraded parapets to nave and aisle parapets. Lead covered dome over crossing with cupola and ball finial. Elaborate marble-lined Interior, with domes to nave-,,top lit side chapels and. much Baroquestyle marble sculpture, including spandrel figures. |
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