Clarendon Building

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.