Maryvale House, Old Oscott Hill, Birmingham. B44 9AG (O.S. Gr SP0794)
(Building now in use for Maryvale Institute, the Archdiocesan Institute of Further and Higher Education.)
The mission was founded about 1675 by Fr. Andrew Bromwich, the last priest sentenced to death for the Faith in England. In 1794, St. Mary's College, Oscott, was founded in the old house at Maryvale built by Bishop Hornyold as a residence for the Vicars Apostolic of the Midlands. After the transference of the college to the a new building in 1838 the house was occupied by Fr. John Henry (Cardinal) Newman and Fr. Faber, who called the place 'Maryvale' to distinguish it from New Oscott. In 1850, the Sisters of Mercy opened their orphanage within its walls. The chapel was built in 1816 by Bishop Milner, who placed in it a painted window of the Sacred Heart. In 1878, the Sisters established the Association of the Perpetual Lamp in honour of the Sacred Heart, and the jubilee of the devotion was celebrated in February 1898.
KELLY 1907