Brompton Oratory is a large neo-classical Roman Catholic church in the Knightsbridge area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. Its full name is the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, or as named in its Grade II* architectural listing, The Oratory. The church is closely connected with the London Oratory School, a school founded by the priests from the London Oratory. Its priests celebrate Mass daily in both the Ordinary and Extraordinary forms, frequently conduct ceremonies for well-known people, as it works as an extra-parochial church. There are three choirs at the church. Location The church is on the A4 where it becomes Brompton Road, next to the Victoria and Albert Museum, where the street briefly becomes Thurloe Place and Cromwell Gardens but after that neighbouring museum the road becomes Cromwell Road which gradually widens via the Hammersmith Flyover into the M4. The A308 road starts opposite the building which takes up the name Brompton Road. It therefore marks an important junction. History Foundation John Henry Newman was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. He later founded the Birmingham Oratory, dedicated to Saint Philip Neri. Other former Anglicans, including Frederick William Faber, briefly established a London Oratory in premises near Charing Cross. Faber's growing following purchased a property in November 1852 for £16,000; in the (then) rapidly developing suburb (and former village) of Brompton, later subsumed under the name of the South Kensington tube station. An Oratory House was built first, followed shortly by a temporary church; both designed by Joseph John Scoles. An appeal was then launched in 1874 for funds to build a church. Within the Oratory House is a chapel, known as the Little Oratory. The church still belongs to, and is served by, the Congregation of the London Oratory (see London Oratory). Notable weddings and ceremonies Catholic aristocrats who married at the church include John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, and Gwendoline Fitzalan-Howard (1872), Lord William Beauchamp Nevill and Mabel Murietta (1889), Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, and Lavinia Strutt (1937), Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, and Rosamund Broughton (1938), Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, and Antonella Newland (1943), Anthony Noel, 5th Earl of Gainsborough, and Mary Stourton (1947) and Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, and Anne Palairet (1947). Others who married at the church include Lord of Appeal in Ordinary Baron Russell of Killowen,