Oratory T-Shirts

Program cover lithograph in Art Nouveau style by Alfred Jackson, 1904

Geometric section of an Oratory (Memorial Chapel) in a vintage colour scheme. A building of perfect symmetry.

Geometric section of an Oratory (Memorial Chapel) in a vintage colour scheme. A building of perfect symmetry.

Trump Rhetoric by FelipeMakesCartoons,

St Catherine's Trilogy - Part 2 Number of views as of 11th June 2019 = 3240. St. Catherine's Oratory, a mediaeval lighthouse on St. Catherine's Hill on the south coast of the Isle of Wight. In February 1314, Walter de Godeton was put on trial in Southampton before an Island jury for the theft of wine from a shipwreck in Chale Bay the previous year. He was found guilty and fined 287 marks. However, as the wine was bound for the monastery of Livers in Picardy, de Godeton was also tried by Church courts for the same offence. The Church threatened to excommunicate de Godeton unless he built a lighthouse near Chale Bay. There was already an oratory on the top of the hill, dedicated to St. Catherine of Alexandria. This was augmented by the con...

St Catherine's Trilogy - Part 3 Number of views as of 11th March 2018 = 2950. The sun sets behind St. Catherine's Oratory, a mediaeval lighthouse, built on St. Catherine's Hill on the south coast of the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England. Actually, the site is too frequently shrouded in fog to be useful as a lighthouse. The current lighthouse, constructed after the 1837 wreck of the Clarendon, was built much closer to sea level. Date: 29th October 2009. Click here to see Parts 1 & 2.

St Catherine's Trilogy - Part 1 Number of views as of 31st May 2019 = 2975. Known locally as the "Pepperpot", St. Catherine's Oratory is a mediaeval lighthouse on St. Catherine's Hill on the southern coast of the Isle of Wight. It was built by Walter de Godeton, Lord of Chale, as an act of penance for plundering wine from the shipwreck St. Marie of Bayonne in Chale Bay on April 20th, 1313 A.D. The lighthouse is a stone structure 4 stories high, octagonal on the outside and four-sided on the inside. Date: 29th October 2009. Click here to see Part 2.

Victorian Collage & Digital Art 2012

Geometric section of La Fenice, Opera House in a vintage colour scheme. A building of perfect symmetry located in Venice.

Geometric section of La Fenice, Opera House in a vintage colour scheme. A building of perfect symmetry located in Venice.