Low angle view of the facade of the Tower of the Five Orders, Bodleian Library, Oxford, England, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England: Detail of the highly decorated facade of the Tower of the Five Orders ( 1613-1619 ), Bodleian Library, viewed from the entrance to the Divinity School. The tower forms the main entrance to the Bodleian library, and is known as the Tower of the Five Orders and is so named because it is ornamented, in ascending order, with the columns of each of the five orders of classical architecture: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. The Bodleian Library is in Britain second in size only to the British Library with over 11 million items. Known to Oxford scholars as "Bodley" or simply "the Bod", under the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 it is one of six legal deposit libraries for works published in the United Kingdom and under Irish Law it is entitled to request a copy of each book published in the Republic of Ireland. The Bodleian operates principally as a reference library and in general documents may not be removed from the reading rooms.
Size: 5330px × 3344px
Location: Broad Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, Europe
Photo credit: © Mieneke Andeweg-van Rijn / Alamy / Afripics
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