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Spring Hill Library

Spring Hill Library

Library in Birmingham, England

Spring Hill Library (grid reference SP055874) is a red brick and terracotta Victorian building in Ladywood, Birmingham, England.

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Designed in 1891 by Frederick Martin[1] of Martin & Chamberlain with a 65-foot (20 m) clock tower on the corner of Icknield Street and Spring Hill and opened on 7 January 1893, it now stands next to a roundabout and linked via a glazed atrium to a new (2010) Tesco superstore. The site was previously the location for the turnpike gate house for Icknield Street.[2]

Still in use as a Birmingham branch library, it is a Grade II* listed building.[3][4]

  • Arms of Birmingham
  • The ceiling, with curved iron girders concealed (unusual for Martin & Chamberlain)

Notes

  1. [1]
    Thornton, Roy (2006). Victorian Buildings of Birmingham. Sutton Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7509-3857-9.
  2. [2]
    John Young Walker MacAlister; Alfred William Pollard (1891). The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Oxford University Press. p. 199.
  3. [3]
    Historic England. "Spring Hill Public Library (Grade II*) (1076161)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  4. [4]
    Historic England. "Details and photograph (1076161)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 October 2006.

References

52°29′6.16″N 1°55′10.14″W


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