Oxford Oratory

The Oxford Oratory Church of St Aloysius Gonzaga is the Catholic parish church for the centre of Oxford, England. It is located at 25 Woodstock Road, next to Somerville College. The church is served by the Congregation of the Oratory.

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Type: Church
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Description: Roman Catholic church in Oxford, England
Also known as: “Oxford Oratory Church of St Aloysius Gonzaga” and “The Oxford Oratory”
Address: Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HA

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Somerville College and Green Templeton College.

Somerville College

University

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Somerville College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges.

Green Templeton College

University

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Green Templeton College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The college is located on the former Green College site on Woodstock Road next to the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter in North Oxford and is centred on the architecturally important Radcliffe Observatory, an 18th-century building, modelled on the ancient Tower of the Winds in Athens. Green Templeton College is situated 770 feet northwest of Oxford Oratory.

Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Museum

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The Oxford University Museum of Natural History is a museum displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens, located on Parks Road in Oxford, England. Oxford University Museum of Natural History is situated 1,400 feet east of Oxford Oratory.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jericho and Norham Manor.

Jericho

Suburb

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Jericho is a historic suburb of the English city of Oxford. It consists of the streets bounded by the Oxford Canal, Worcester College, Walton Street and Walton Well Road.

Norham Manor

Quarter

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The Norham Manor estate is a residential suburb in Oxford, England. It is part of central North Oxford. To the north is Park Town with its crescents, to the east is the River Cherwell, to the south are the University Parks and to the west is Walton Manor, on the other side of Banbury Road.

Park Town

Neighborhood

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Park Town is a small residential area in central North Oxford, a suburb of Oxford, England. It was one of the earliest planned suburban developments in the area and most of the houses are Grade II listed.

Oxford Oratory

Categories: Jesuit church, building, place of worship, and religion
Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.75935° or 51° 45′ 34″ north

Longitude

-1.26183° or 1° 15′ 43″ west

Wheelchair access

yes

Open location code

9C3WQP5Q+P7

OpenStreetMap ID

way 65699768

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=place_of_worship

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap attribute

denomination=roman_catholic

Wikidata ID

Q1666336

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In Other Languages

From French to Indonesian—“Oxford Oratory” goes by many names.

French: “oratoire d’Oxford”
French: “Oratoire d’Oxford”
German: “St. Aloysius Gonzaga”
Indonesian: “Oratorium Oxford”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Oxford Oratory Church of St Aloysius Gonzaga and Dorothy Hodgkin Quad.

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