The Sheldonian Theatre
Wren-designed ceremonial hall guarded by bearded stone heads, with a painted ceiling of the Arts.
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This guide to the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford starts in nineteen seventy, with sculptor Michael Black and two assistants at work on the stone heads that line the theatre's front on Broad Street. It reaches back to Christopher Wren, the carver William Byrd and the hall where the university makes its graduates, and to the novelist Max Beerbohm, who gave the heads their name. Best heard standing at the railings, face to face with the bearded busts.
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