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© Mr David Cross
IoE Number:
359643
Location:
FORMER MORTUARY CHAPEL, UPPER DUKE STREET
LIVERPOOL, LIVERPOOL, MERSEYSIDE
Photographer:
Mr David Cross
Date Photographed:
30 June 2001
Date listed:
28 June 1952
Date of last amendment:
19 June 1985
Grade
I
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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.