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It is considered a striking example of Victorian architecture. The frescoes adorning its walls were painted by William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

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“I clutched my ill-gotten copy of Notes and Queries and turned to face the witness. He was in the shadows on the opposite side of the room in front of the paleography reference books, lounging against one of the graceful pillars that held up the gallery.” Looking down from the gallery, this is what Diana […]

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Rossetti persuaded his friend the Dublin architect Benjamin Woodward to let a group of artists decorate the walls above the gallery that encircles the debating hall of the Oxford Union that was being worked on at the time. Burne-Jones, William Morris, Pollen and Rossetti, assisted by Spencer Stanhope, Val Prinsep and Arthur Hughes painted the murals in the Summer of 1857. The atmosphere was relaxed and jovial. In technical terms it was failure and little survives today but it was a high…

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