Clarendon Laboratory

The Oxford Centre for Quantum Computation is also housed in the laboratory.

[1][2] The Beecroft Building (named after Adrian Beecroft) is now immediately in front of the Lindemann Building, completed in 2018 and designed by Hawkins\Brown, with a budget of approximately £40 million.

[3][4] The Clarendon is named after Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, whose trustees paid £10,000 for the building of the original laboratory, completed in 1872, making it the oldest purpose-built physics laboratory in England.

[6] The award was bestowed due to the work carried out by Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley in 1914.

The original building, substantially enlarged, is now part of the Oxford Earth Sciences Department.

The Clarendon Laboratory – the main Townsend Building front facade
The Clarendon Laboratory Lindemann Building front facade (2008). Note: This view is now blocked by the 2018 Beecroft Building
The Clarendon Laboratory – the Lindemann Building with the construction site of the new Beecroft Building (completed 2018) in front.
Blue plaque erected by the Royal Society of Chemistry on the Townsend Building of the Clarendon Laboratory in 2007, commemorating Henry Moseley 's early 20th-century research work on X-rays emitted by elements.