Littlemore

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Littlemore is a village with a parish council that also represents parts of Rose Hill. It is located approximately 2.5 miles south-east of the city centre of Oxford, England — between Rose Hill, Blackbird Leys, Cowley, and Sandford-on-Thames.

[edit] John Henry Newman and Littlemore

Littlemore is now probably best known for the work of Cardinal Newman, who, while a member of the Church of England, worked to have a church built for the residents of Littlemore (the first stone was laid by his mother) this is now SS Mary and Nicholas. He then took up orders with the Roman Catholic Church (a sensation at the time), he was accepted into the faith by Father Dominic Barberi a prominent Passionist active in England at the time. Newman was declared venerableby the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in 1991 and is now on his way to being beatified and canonised. An order of nuns are also resident in Littlemore and live in the aptly named Newman Rooms in College Lane.

Trade unionist Henry Broadhurst was born in the village.

The Church of Saint Mary and Saint Nicholas was built in 1835/36 as a result of the work of John Henry Cardinal Newman

'The College' at Littlemore

The Catholic Church in Littlemore is named after Blessed Dominic Barberi

Coordinates: 51°43′5″N, 1°13′20″W