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The
Clarendon Building is a landmark Grade I listed building in
Oxford,
England and was built between [[1711] and
1713 to house the
Oxford University Press. It stands in the centre of the city in
Broad Street, near the
Bodleian Library and the
Sheldonian Theatre. It was vacated by the Press in the early nineteenth century, and used by the university for administrative purposes. In
1975 it was handed over to the
Bodleian Library, and now provides office and meeting space for senior members of staff.
The building was designed by
Nicholas Hawksmoor (
Christopher Wren's greatest pupil) and built between 1711 and 1715 to house the Press's printing operations. Before the construction of the Clarendon Building, the presses were in the basement of the
Sheldonian Theatre, and the compositors couldn't work when the Theatre was in use for ceremonies.
The building was financed largely from the proceeds of the commercially successful
History of the Great Rebellion by
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, whose money also paid for the building of the
Clarendon Laboratory in
Oxford.
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