Abbot's Kitchen, Oxford
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The Abbot's Kitchen in
History
Chemistry was first recognized as a separate discipline at
Victorian Gothic style. The building was one of the first ever purpose-built chemical laboratories anywhere and was extended in 1878. A further major extension adding three wings was completed in 1957.[3] It is now part of the new graduate college of the University, Reuben College
, which opened in 2023.
Gallery
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Oxford University Museum of Natural History (left) and the Abbot's Kitchen chemistry laboratory (right) -
Wood engraving of the Oxford University Museum with the smaller octagonal Abbot's Kitchen building on the right, by W. E. Hodgkin (1855) -
The Radcliffe Science Library with the Abbot's Kitchen on the left
See also
- Abbot's Kitchen, Glastonbury, on which the laboratory building was based
- Balliol-Trinity Laboratories, another early Oxford chemistry laboratory
- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
- List of octagonal buildings and structures
References
- TripAdvisor. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
- ^ "History of Chemistry at the University of Oxford". UK: Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ^ "The "Abbots Kitchen" by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History". UK: Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Abbot's Kitchen, Oxford.
- Bashkin, James (30 August 2006). "P8300885 Abbot's Kitchen Oxford Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory". Flickr. Retrieved 26 August 2015.