We are going back in time a couple of centuries from the previous post to talk about the Divinity School - the oldest lecture-room in Oxford. It took nearly 60 years to construct, and has been little altered since its completion in 1483. It served for 400 years as an examination room where candidates for the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Divinity demonstrated their knowledge orally in front of a "master", and only in the last 100 years has it ceased to be used for its original purpose. The interior is a showpiece of English Gothic architecture and masoncraft, with a complex vaulted ceiling decorated with intricately carved bosses. (You may also recognize it as the infirmary in the Harry Potter movies.)
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