Radcliffe Observatory

I don’t remember ever having seen the Radcliffe Observatory before.   The original design was by Henry Keene in 1772, but it was then redesigned by James Wyatt, a remarkably fine building now much more visible owing to Viňoly’s development of the Infirmary site.   It’s very obviously based on the Temple of the Winds:-

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