Dining Hall Harry Potter Dining Hall Oxford University Inside
Like university of chicago s dining hall this room was designed around the turn of the 20th century.
Dining hall harry potter dining hall oxford university inside. The first christ church harry potter location is certainly the most famous christ church great hall which provided the inspiration for hogwarts dining hall. The place where all the students of hogwarts have supper and the announcement of the triwizard championship which took place in harry potter and the goblet of fire is actually just a set made at the studio that said the design of the hall took heavy inspiration from the designs of the great hall located at christ church college in oxford. Christ church college dining hall is the inspiration for hogwart s hall in harry potter. Plan your own trip to harry potter s england.
Christ church s high ceilinged dining hall was a model for the one seen throughout the films with the. The harry potter dining hall. It seats about 1 200 and serves as the freshman dining hall and cafeteria for yale faculty and. Alnwick castle quidditch anyone.
Several other parts of hogwarts were filmed at oxford university. Visit the harry potter sites in oxford. Have you been to oxford university and the city of oxford. Although actual filming took place in the leavesden studio this tudor dining hall remains well worth a wander through.
Here s a guide to the harry potter locations to visit in. A muggle s exploration of harry potter s england. Harry potter fans and muggels are welcome to walk on the footsteps of harry potter. And so if you make it your mission to see just one harry potter filming location in oxford then make it the dining hall.
The movie producers came to see it but instead of actually filming in the hall they made a replica in a studio. A muggle s view of harry potter s london. The dining hall at christ church aka the harry potter dining hall was the inspiration for the great hall at hogwarts. Harry potter fans coming to london should know that there is plenty more to see and experience just outside of the city be that a quick trip to warner bros studios the making of harry potter tour or a short train or bus ride to oxford to see more filming locations and where the producers sources much inspiration for the films.
The great hall at christ church. Lacock abbey inside a hogwart s classroom. And i ve saved the best until last. That said the harry potter dining hall oxford scenes were actually filmed at leavesden studios where they recreated this hall taking inspiration from all the portraits and.
Explore student life in oxford university and compare it with hogwarts education. Our magical tour of oxford also includes visiting the school of divinity and beautiful dining hall in a historic college. You can definitely see the similarities though if you visit christ church.