The Divinity School
Fifteenth-century vaulted hall for theology teaching, its ceiling studded with hundreds of carved bosses.
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This guide to the Divinity School in Oxford follows William Orchard, the Headington master mason who took charge of its stone vault in the fourteen-eighties, and the benefactor whose money finally paid for it. It looks at the theology students who were lectured and examined here, the boy, the king and the Green Man carved overhead, and the film crews who turned the room into part of Hogwarts. Best heard standing in the middle of the room with your head tilted back.
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