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[dubdobdee]

5.

i: What was built as a wayfarers’ chapel on the Via Devana?
ii: What has occupied a site in Sheep Street for over 900 years?
iii: Which concert venue originally housed a turntable of the LNWR?
iv: Where does a circular tour reveal numerous examples of Jurassic geology?
v: Which building is based on the plans of Mario Asprucci, commissioned by the Bishop of Derry?
vi: Which edifice, formerly housing a Science Library, owed its building to an Old Savilian physician’s bequest?
vii: Where did midwifery give way, through a Gate, to a diplomatic film venue?
viii: In which little village did the Knights of St John build their church?
ix: Where did Campbell create a copy of the Villa Almerico Capra?
x: Where did Rienzi initiate an annual festival 120 years ago?

COMPLETE: (will tabulate later)

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

is iii the roundhouse in kentish town?

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

Gotta be innit

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly sure of it. Is the theme here circular buildings?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

DAMNIT! That was the only one I knew!!! ;)

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

IV is going to be something like St Paul's circular galleries with notable fossils in the limestone

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

= circular architecture

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Might vi be the reading room at the British Museum then (mainly thinking of famous circular buildings)?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

vii - could this be the Waterloo IMAX?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

ROUND BUILDINGS I CAN THINK OF

The Royal Albert Hall
The Globe
The gherkin (and city hall sort of)
The millennium done
This absolute beauty
<3 <3 <3

Also, lighthouses, windmills, round towers, any amount of old crannogs and whatnot.

i. Via Devana - Italian road? Or old roman road maybe?

vi. A science library is probably attached to a university. 'Old Savillian', though - maybe it's a private school?

viii Knights of St John - these dudes are aka the Knights Hospitallers, and ended up being St John Ambulance. They left a castle near where I grew up (not round though) - and I *think* that was the one where small me got very excited about the guarderobes!

But this might be a 'little village' that was swallowed up by London like ... St Johns Wood? Anyone know of a roundy church in St Johns Wood?

x. If roundy buildings are correct might this be the proms? and so the RAH?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

also the sheldonian?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

viii. There is a St John building in Clerkenwell?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Yes! It sounds like it was mostly rebuilt but started off circular. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_Clerkenwell

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

Feeling weird remembering like a flash the Round Church in Cambridge. which I haven't thought of for ages.

and is it too early to admit that I then googled it and it seems like a deffo possible for i. at the same time I stumbled on viii - another round church.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Google time!

i. Via Devana is Colchester to Chester

ii. Appears to be in Northampton:

http://www.masquetheatre.co.uk/Plays/041214_a_christmas_carol.html

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

(goggles on)

via devana passes through cambridge, so i is the Cambridge Round church

viii http://www.roundchurch.co.uk/about-us/history = "Little Maplestead" (which sounds like a Miss Marple setting)

ix is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mereworth_Castle

x is the Albert Hall, it was the proms

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

(via google)

vii. seems to be the Rotunda hospital in Dublin which is on the same site as the former Ambassadors' cinema (itself vaguely circular in shape)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Google sez v) is Ickworth House in Bury St Edmunds:



"As one of England's more unusual houses, Ickworth has been unflatteringly described as resembling "a huge bulk, newly arrived from another planet" and as "an overgrown folly"."

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

And I think vi) is the good old Radcliffe Camera (John Radcliffe == an old Savilian appaz):



No amusing wiki quote here but myself and schoolchum Kirst once had a plan that when we were Queens of the Universe, we would turn it into a Wetherspoons (which Oxford was lacking at the time).