Page "Oriel College, Oxford" Paragraph 37

Above the entrance to the chapel is an oriel that, until the 1880s, was a room on the first floor that formed part of a set of rooms that were occupied by Richard Whately, and later by John Henry Newman.

Whately is said to have used the space as a larder and Newman is said to have used it for his private prayers — when the organ was installed in 1884, the space was used for the blower.

The wall that once separated the room from the ante-chapel was removed, making it accessible from the chapel.

The organ was built by J. W. Walker & Sons in 1988 ; in 1991 the space behind the organ was rebuilt as an oratory and memorial to Newman and the Oxford Movement.

A new stained glass window designed by Vivienne Haig and realised by Douglas Hogg was completed and installed in 2001.