UK - Oxford - Clarendon Building archway_DSC0328
This archway forms an axis that starts at the Clarendon Building, passes through the Old Schools Quad and then on into the Radcliffe Square. If the Radcliffe Camera was open to the public then you would pass straight through that and into St Marys Church........
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From Wikipedia : "Until the early 18th century the printing presses of the Oxford University Press (OUP) were in the basement of the Sheldonian Theatre. This meant that the compositors could not work when the Theatre was in use for ceremonies. The University therefore commissioned a new building to house the OUP.
Nicholas Hawksmoor produced a neoclassical design, construction started in 1711 and it was completed in 1715. The building was funded largely from the proceeds of the commercially successful History of the Great Rebellion by the 1st Earl of Clarendon, whose legacy later paid for the building of the Clarendon Laboratory in Oxford as well.
In the 1820s the OUP moved to new premises in Walton Street, after which the University used the Clarendon Building for administrative purposes. In 1975 the building was transferred to the Bodleian Library, for which it now provides office and meeting space for senior members of staff."
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UK - Oxford - Clarendon Building archway_DSC0328
This archway forms an axis that starts at the Clarendon Building, passes through the Old Schools Quad and then on into the Radcliffe Square. If the Radcliffe Camera was open to the public then you would pass straight through that and into St Marys Church........
Click here to see more photos of the University of Oxford : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157629194588410
From Wikipedia : "Until the early 18th century the printing presses of the Oxford University Press (OUP) were in the basement of the Sheldonian Theatre. This meant that the compositors could not work when the Theatre was in use for ceremonies. The University therefore commissioned a new building to house the OUP.
Nicholas Hawksmoor produced a neoclassical design, construction started in 1711 and it was completed in 1715. The building was funded largely from the proceeds of the commercially successful History of the Great Rebellion by the 1st Earl of Clarendon, whose legacy later paid for the building of the Clarendon Laboratory in Oxford as well.
In the 1820s the OUP moved to new premises in Walton Street, after which the University used the Clarendon Building for administrative purposes. In 1975 the building was transferred to the Bodleian Library, for which it now provides office and meeting space for senior members of staff."
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© D.Godliman