WHILE Cambridge University is reportedly looking for a professor of Lego, Oxford University has revealed it has had its own Lego specialist for years.
And now, Hertford College professor Dr Andrew Beaumont has built a six-foot-wide replica of the 700-year-old college façade and rooms from 30,000 tiny bricks.
Behind the replica stone exterior, the model even includes features such as a Hogwarts-style spiral staircase, an "Alien Experimentation Lab" and a wall defaced by a miniature graffiti tag by one of Oxford’s most prolific graffiti taggers.
The model will go on public display at the college's open day on Wednesday, July 1.
Dr Beaumont is a colonial historian who also specialises in making Lego replicas of the college’s famous features, all intricately constructed from memory thanks to his inside-out knowledge of the college’s buildings as Home Bursar responsible for college operations.
And while he admits that his hours of painstaking construction are a purely extracurricular activity, the models are prominently displayed during university open days to draw visitors into the college.
He said: "It’s a useful message to show prospective students that we don’t take ourselves too seriously."
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