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Benjamin Hebbert Violins
Old Kemp Hall Passage
130 High Street
Oxford OX1 4DH
0207 175 1644
violins@hebberts.com
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My Studio is located at the top of a fifteenth-century building in the heart of historic Oxford surrounded by the university and within a short walk from several concert venues including the Sheldonian Theatre and the Holywell and Jacqueline du Pré music rooms. By public transport Oxford is very centrally located and trains from London Paddington or Marylebone stations take around an hour, with a short walk from the station. For international visitors, Oxford is easiest reached by regular coach services from Gatwick and Heathrow airports.
Old Kemp Hall is the oldest building on Oxford High Street, about 100 meters from Carfax Tower, the spiritual centre of the city and opposite the covered market. Today Love Coffee is on the ground floor and there is a gelato stand by the doorway to the alleyway during the summer.
Old Kemp Hall is the oldest building on Oxford High Street, about 100 meters from Carfax Tower, the spiritual centre of the city and opposite the covered market. Today Love Coffee is on the ground floor and there is a gelato stand by the doorway to the alleyway during the summer.
Come through the sixteenth-century gateway and the door for the studio door is a few meters down on the right. We are right at the top of the building. As we are often away from the studio we are available by appointment or by chance.
Look out for the sign, and ring the buzzer. As we are often away from the studio we are available by appointment or by chance.
Look out for the sign, and ring the buzzer. As we are often away from the studio we are available by appointment or by chance.
Don’t go too far down or you’ll be distracted by Chiang Mai Kitchen, the glorious Thai Restaurant at the end of the alleyway. For history buffs, the two buildings collectively make up possibly the last intact private hall complex from the early history of Oxford University. Through the seventeenth century many such halls existed but they gradually merged together and turned into a colleges and the original buildings got redeveloped.
For reasons that elude history, the buildings take their name from the cardinal John Kemp (1380-1454), Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VI and Archbishop of Canterbury, perhaps because he was regarded as one of the last great administrators of England before the Wars of the Roses. … He’s a cheery fellow in this engraving.
For reasons that elude history, the buildings take their name from the cardinal John Kemp (1380-1454), Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VI and Archbishop of Canterbury, perhaps because he was regarded as one of the last great administrators of England before the Wars of the Roses. … He’s a cheery fellow in this engraving.
