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Radcliffe Camera Library III

Radcliffe Camera view from University Church. Oxford UK Notes from Wikipedia: The building is the earliest example in England of a circular library Construction completed 1748 References in popular culture * J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, remarked that the building resembled Sauron's temple to Morgoth on NĂºmenor. It also features in The Notion Club Papers. * The Camera was used as a location in the films Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), Opium Wars (Yapian zhanzheng) (1997), The Saint (1997) and The Red Violin (1998),[4] and was seen in The Golden Compass (2008). * The building is also seen in the Inspector Morse television series, set in Oxford.

Taken on: April 6, 2009
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