Clarendon Building
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The
Clarendon Building in
Oxford, England, was designed by
Nicholas Hawksmoor (
Christopher Wren's greatest pupil) and built (1711-1715) with the proceeds of the Oxford University Press's commercially successful
History of the Great Rebellion by
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, to house the Press's printing operations. Before then its presses were in the basement of the
Sheldonian Theatre, and the compositors could not work when the Theatre was in use for performances.
