Red Hart Rooms

Oxford's principal secular concert and assembly hall, placing secular music, visiting players and shortened opera under the uneasy gaze of Chapter and council.

A licensed house in Oxford where players from the capital perform what Oxford will receive: shortened, the moral plain, the ending corrected. An Oxford venue whose house choir sings a shortened moral version of The Last Lantern, the Last Lanterns' Gloam song, with the iron taken out.

Named with it

• Eleanor Cresset, the Deep Bell · contralto who returns each winter

At the table

Has its house choir sing Lucia Saye's The Last Lantern in a shortened Oxford version, with the iron taken out, to audiences of canons, merchants and ministers in equal embarrassment.