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Inside the new Weston Library, which is to open its doors to the public on Saturday. Picture: David Fleming
OXFORD’S new £80m Weston Library throws its doors open to the public for the first time on Saturday.
But here is an early glimpse of what will await visitors arriving at the Blackwell Hall, the vast 15.5m-high entrance foyer.
It has been created within the 1930s Grade II-listed building on the corner of Broad Street and Park Road, with the former New Bodleian Library renamed and totally transformed.
The hall has been created where an 11-storey book stack had once stood at the heart of the building.
It contains the new Bodleian cafe and information desk, leading on to two exhibition galleries.
The first exhibition will feature the Magna Carta.
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