Abbot's Kitchen, Oxford

The Abbot's Kitchen in Oxford, England, is an early chemistry laboratory based on the Abbot's Kitchen at Glastonbury Abbey, a mediaeval 14th-century octagonal building that served as the kitchen at the abbey.

[1] Chemistry was first recognized as a separate discipline at Oxford University with the construction of this laboratory, attached to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and opening in 1860.

[2] The laboratory is a stone-built structure to the right of the museum, built in the 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.