Description:The Oratory in Hagley Road began as the English Congregation of the Oratory of St Philip Neri, founded by John Henry Newman in 1849. On moving to the Hagley Road site in 1852 Newman engaged Terence Flanagan to design the Oratory House in a Renaissance style. Subsequently Henry Clutton's School Hall was added (on the left in the picture) and after Newman's death in 1890 a new church was built to E. Doran Webb's designs in his memory. This photograph must date from around the end of the 19th century.