Radcliffe Camera

The Radcliffe Camera is a building of the University of Oxford, England, designed by James Gibbs in a Baroque style and built in 1737–49 to house a library, ultimately becoming a reading room of the Bodleian Library, not open to the public, after the original library moved out.
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  • Access is restricted and requires permission.
  • Opening hours:
    Monday—Friday: 9:00 AM—9:00 PM
    Saturday: 10:00 AM—6:00 PM
    Sunday: 11:00 AM—7:00 PM
  • Type: Library
  • Description: library building in Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Address: Radcliffe Square, Oxford, OX1 3BG

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include All Souls College and Brasenose College.

University
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is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows.

University
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, formally The Principal and Scholars of the King's Hall and College of Brasenose in Oxford, or BNC, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in .

University
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is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, and the fourth-oldest college of the university. The College was founded in 1314 by two brothers from , Bishop Walter Stapledon and Sir Richard Stapledon, as an institution to educate clergy, and has been located on Turl Street since 1315. is situated 380 feet northwest of Radcliffe Camera.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oxford and Grandpont.

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is the oldest university city in the , some 50 miles to the west of the capital in its own county of , on the rivers Thames and Cherwell.

Quarter
is a mainly residential area in south Oxford, England. It is west of Abingdon Road, and consists mainly of narrow streets that run at right angles to the main road, with terraced late-Victorian and Edwardian houses.

Suburb
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is a historic suburb of the English city of . It consists of the streets bounded by the , , Walton Street and Walton Well Road.

Radcliffe Camera

Latitude
51.75344° or 51° 45′ 12″ north
Longitude
-1.25399° or 1° 15′ 14″ west
Levels
5
Wheelchair access
limited
Operator
University of Oxford
Open location code
9C3WQP3W+9C
Open­Street­Map ID
way 4884600
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­library
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­university
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q1602700
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Radcliffe Camera” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قمرة رادكليف”
  • Basque: “Radcliffe Ganbera”
  • Bosnian: “Radcliffe Camera”
  • Catalan: “Càmara Radcliffe”
  • Catalan: “Cambra Radcliffe”
  • Chinese: “拉德克里夫图书馆”
  • Chinese: “拉德克里夫圖書館”
  • Danish: “Radcliffe Camera”
  • Dutch: “Radcliffe Camera”
  • Esperanto: “Radcliffe Camera”
  • French: “Radcliffe Camera”
  • German: “Radcliffe Camera”
  • Irish: “Radcliffe Camera”
  • Japanese: “ラドクリフ・カメラ”
  • Korean: “래드클리프 카메라”
  • Macedonian: “Радклифова комора”
  • Malay: “Radcliffe Camera”
  • Persian: “ردکلیف کمرا”
  • Polish: “Radcliffe Camera”
  • Slovak: “Radcliffe Camera”
  • Spanish: “Camara Radcliffe”
  • Spanish: “Cámara Radcliffe”
  • Swedish: “Radcliffe Camera”
  • Turkish: “Radcliffe Camera”
  • Turkish: “Radcliffe Kamarası”
  • Western Panjabi: “ریڈکلف کیمرہ”

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Highlights include Gladstone Link and Staircase 7/VII.

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