The Oratory of the Immaculate Conception (Oratorio dell'Immacolata Concezione) was originally the seat of the homonymous Confraternity. It was built shortly before 1613, aligned with the entrance of Villa Torello, by engineer Giuseppe Vacca, assistant to Giovan Battista Aleotti.

Its façade is set back from the street, creating a small parvis which visually links the two buildings and connects them to the square-based urban structure. The oratory was known also as “Casa dello Scolaro” (Eng. Schoolboy’s Home), since it once housed the schools administered by the Confraternity. The building consists of a single rectangular hall, to which an apse was added in 1634. The nave is covered by a flat wooden slatted ceiling, finely painted in Rococo style. A bold pictorial decoration, framed with railings and Ionic columns, centres on the image of the Assumption of the Virgin, upheld by two angels. In 1791, the interior was remodeled with the addition of two side chapels and stucco decorations in the Corinthian style, including cherubic faces.

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