Convocation House

The exterior of Convocation House, from the north, adjacent to the Sheldonian Theatre (left) and the Old Ashmolean (right).

The interior of Convocation House, which was formerly a meeting chamber for the House of Commons during the English Civil War and later in the 1660s and 1680s.

The lower floor of the 1634–37 westward addition to the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library and Divinity School in Oxford, England, is known as Convocation House.

The entire westward section was originally known as Selden End, in recognition of the gift of books from the lawyer John Selden which occupy the portion of the Bodleian Library housed above. In 1665 and 1681, during the reign of Charles II, the chamber served as home for the English Parliament when it was unable to meet in London.^[1] Its present stone vaulted ceiling dates from 1758–59.

The building is presently used for meetings of Oxford University's Convocation and adjoins the Divinity School, which predates it by just over two hundred years. The Sheldonian Theatre is immediately to the north.

See also

• Convocation

References

1. ^ Oxford: an architectural guide. Geoffrey Tyack, 1998

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