The Oratory School

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The Oratory School came into being on 1st May 1859. It was founded by Cardinal John Henry Newman, at the request of a group of eminent Catholic laymen of the time, in order to provide a boarding school for boys run on English public school principles for the small English Catholic community. It remained attached to the house of the Oratory Fathers in Birmingham until 1922, when it moved to what is now the BBC Monitoring Station at Caversham Park, Reading. The Fathers of the Birmingham Oratory handed over control of the School to a Governing Body in 1931, but links with the London and Oxford Oratories, as well as with the one at Birmingham, remain strong.

The Oratory School
Day & Boarding School, 11 to 18, Boys, 380+ pupils, RC

The Oratory School

Woodcote,
Reading,
Berkshire,
RG8 0PJ
England

Tel: 01491 680207

Fax: 01491 680020

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