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 Entrance to Divinity
School by evaanna
The door at the School's far end leads to the Convocation House where Cromwell's Parliament met in 1681. The room, with its beautifully carved benches, immediately looked familiar to me when my friend and library guide showed us in. Yet, I was sure I had never been there before. The solution to this mystery was simple: I remembered the place from 'The Madness of King George', which I had watched three times. The Divinity School itself also features in 'To Kill a King' and, as the Hogwarts sanatorium, in 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'.
Above the Divinity School is the magnificent Duke Humfrey Library named after Henry V's brother and built in the years 1439 - 1489. Unfortunately, I only visited the place on my first visit to Oxford and without a camera. When we were there last July it was Saturday afternoon, too late for it to be still open.
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Built in 1711 - 1713 to the design of Nicholas Hawksmoor, a pupil of Christopher Wren's, this imposing, if rather heavy, building was to house the Oxford University Press, which until then had its quarters in the basement of the Sheldonian Theatre. The place takes its name from the Earl of Clarendon, author of 'The History of the Great Rebellion', whose son presented the University with its copyright. The proceeds from its publication partly paid for the construction of the building. The interesting statue in the niche of the first floor on the west side is that of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon.
The building was used successively as the university printing house, university police station and the offices of the Registrar. It is now part of the Bodleian Library. Leave a Comment Directions: At the eastern end of Broad Street
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 Bodleian Library by martin_nl
The tower that is part of the Quadrangle is amazing. It's called the Tower of Five Orders and is named so because on top of the tower are five ornamented columns and each of them is one of the five orders of classical architecture, Doric, Tuscan, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. Leave a Comment
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 Divinity School by martin_nlLeave a Comment Address: Radcliffe SquareDirections: Enter Old School Quad through Tower of Five Orders and cross the courtyard and into the Divinity SchoolWebsite: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/
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 Bodleian Library by ultchuk
Because of the incalculable value of the Library’s books, two very strict policies were enforced from the very beginning. The first was that books must never leave the library. The other policy was that no fire may be brought into the library buildings.
Inside the library the opening scenes of Harry Potter (the Hall when the new wizzies are accepted) were taken. Leave a Comment Directions: Broad street
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Metaphysics section! by KennetRose
The library was opened in 1602, endowed by Sir Thomas Bodley. Bodley was a Calvinist whose parents took him to Geneva to bring him up away from the brutal repression of the Roman Catholic Church. In Philip Pullman's story Geneva is a place rich in intriguing ambiguity - in our universe a centre for particle physics, but in Lyra's universe, where John Calvin has become Pope and removed the seat of the papacy to Geneva before the abolition of the position on his death, it is the seat of the all-powerful Magisterium (the Church). Presumably in Lyra's Oxford Bodley would have had nothing to fear (but see my note on the Martyrs' Memorial). There it becomes 'Bodley's Library' and amongst other things is the repository for the learned books associated with the alethiometer, and one assumes the place where Lyra will investigate the mysterious "Dust" so that "eventually she would know more about Dust than anyone in the world Leave a Comment
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 Bodleian Library by barryg23Leave a Comment Address: Catte Street.Other Contact: Bodleian is another one of those
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 Bodleian Library, Oxford by coceng
The first college was built in the 13th century & one of them was called 'university'.
Today, there are 39 colleges spreading over Oxford.
My photo is showing one small entrance to The Bodleian Library, also in the same area as St. Mary's Church, Radcliffe Camera & All Souls College.
This is NOT the main entrance.
The Bodleian Library, known to Oxford scholars as 'The Bod', opened in 1602 with a collection of 2000 books, assembled by Thomas Bodley.
Today, the Bodleian includes several off-site storage areas as well as nine other libraries in Oxford :The Bodleian Japanese Library
The Bodleian Law Library
The Hooke Library
The Indian Institute Library
The Oriental Institute Library
The Philosophy Library
The Radcliffe Science Library
The Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House
The Vere Harmsworth Library The sites now contain 9 million items on 176 km of shelving, and have seats for 2,500 readers.
Oxford students must swear not to borrow or set fire to any books when they join 'The Bod'. Leave a Comment
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