Birmingham Oratory
From Tolkien Gateway
The Birmingham Oratory is a Catholic oratory and church in Birmingham. Because of its baroque design, it is often called the "Little Rome in Birmingham".
The church was constructed between 1907 and 1910 as a memorial to Cardinal Newman, a famous cardinal who converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism.
J. R. R. Tolkien, a devout catholic, worshipped here for about seven years.
