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Sheldonian Theatre including
The Clarendon Building, Museum of the History of Science and The Old Library.

Oxford Index

The Broad Street entrance to the Sheldonian Theatre is notable because of the carved heads, or terms, that tower above the railings. Often referred to as the twelve Caesars or Apostles, they are actually anonymous but, nonetheless, curiously photogenic! The Clarendon Building was erected for the University Press in 1711-15 from the proceeds of the publication in 1702-4 of Clarendon's 'History of the Great Rebellion'.The designer was Hawksmoor; that can now be regarded as accepted. It is, as it is by Hawksmoor, an excessively grave and pretentious building for its purpose. The N side has in the middle a detached portico of four Tuscan giant columns, with a wider interstice in the middle

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